skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun. But, rule of thumb, if your method is apropos of nothing and similar methods could produce pretty much any text at all, you have not produced a cryptanalysis.
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I disagree. You're forgetting the target audience. If you were in High School or College now there are multiple actionable recommendations.
So Apple has a track record of unilaterally making poor or wholly irrational decisions about what's allowed to be on their store and what isn't, and you decide that because the one example case being used is a vaguely shady app, obviously the politicians are just bought off by bribes and they're going after Apple because they have friends in high places?

You don't think that it's VAGUELY possible that perhaps Apple exerting their influence to silence speech (in the forms of games, comics, books, etc) and other forms of expression, not to mention outright crushing businesses because they decide they don't like them or because they decide they don't want competition, has upset politicians? You don't think it's VAGUELY possible that perhaps it is actually illegal?

Yeah, sure. Bribery. Got it. Most logical explanation!

P.S. I don't know why you would choose Viagra spam as a point of comparison for an app that people chose to install on their phones. Yes, AppGratis was scummy SEO, almost certainly - but Apple was OK with it being on their store, and approved updates, up until days before it was pulled, and they continue to allow similar apps to operate on their store. They also allow stuff on their store that is BLATANTLY exploitative (IAP-laden games aimed at kids, for example).
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context:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos

From what I see, the solution looks correct. Cool!
Cuil, enough said.
Ask HN: What are some great resources to learn about genomics?
I'm really interested in the potential impact genomics can have on our society. The prospect of hacking the genome is mind blowing, and not too far off. However, beyond a few inspiring blog posts and a quick scan of the Genomics wikipedia page, I really don't know the best way to get a solid base of knowledge in the field.

What are some great introductory resources? Could be websites, blogs, books, free courses. It would also be really helpful to know what I should already be well versed in before I start utilizing said resources (I.E. "For resource X, you should understand some machine learning" or "It will help to know some basic bio for resource Y, but they'll go over what you need to know...").

Thanks!
That's beautiful! Just needs a couple more references to Invisible Russians and there's a Sveriges Riksbank prize with speakeasy's name on it.
Would have loved to buy this tee if not for that Crown/insignia! (Nth wrong with it, my personal preference :-) )

Just asking, are you British?
Here are a few problems with this.

1. Starts off with "working on a profitable side project" but then goes into "see what happens."

2. You quit your day job, work 10-20 hrs a weeks with the goal of $500 a month within 3 months. Doesn't sound like a sound biz move if that's the goal.

3. "A side project" denotes lack of commitment to turn it into a business.

I think the process of pulling together a team to make and launch a product from here makes a lot of sense. There's a lot of really smart people on here and that creates a lot of good possibilities.

Would love to do something like this as well. However I'd start it in a different direction. Keep your day job, lets make it into a real business, and we may fail, quite a few times and it may not succeed. Me: Cofounded a web dev company in business for 14 yrs. started a little photo sharing site. Cofounded one of the largest sites in the SEA region. Looking to start other businesses with other like minded folks when the time and product makes sense.
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Hi Shahab, thanks for replying to my concerns.

My intention was not to "slap you in the face"...but I REALLY don't like spam (unsolicited e-mail for which I have not opted-in). I don't feel that the fact your service is free gives you a license to share e-mail addresses without permission. As I pointed out in my original post, the statement "We promise not to share your email with anyone else." is extremely explicit.

Now where I have a problem with your explanation of this incident is the following statement:

"When you sign up for CoFoundersLab's FREE SERVICE you agreed to the following terms IF you take the assessment; "By completing the archetype assessment, you agree to the Terms of Service of BOSI Inc. Find BOSI Inc.'s Terms of Service here: http://www.bosidna.com/tos.

I just tried going through the same process from a new dummy account and when I clicked "My Archetype
You have not yet taken this assessment - Take Assessment" it then takes me to a link still on your site that says

"What's your entrepreneurial archetype?
Take a minute to complete this 10-question assessment to discover your innate entrepreneurial skill set and how you might match up with a potential co-founder."

Upon clicking that link, the BOSI system pops up and that is as far as I ever went on my accounts. There was no indication that my initiating this process I would be having any interaction with a third-party, let-alone being displayed a warning like the one you described. The phrasing you quoted was not displayed to me (I just tested it now) at any point.

This is just not email best-practices.

This is spam.

When good websites (and I wholeheartedly agree you provide a great service to the community) start leaking their e-mail lists to third-parties without the permission of the users, this is where a lot of spam comes from.
Thank you, would have helped if I was able to express that better.
And just to set the record straight from bosiDNA.com's perspective...

I'm Joe, the founder/CEO of bosiDNA.com.

pain_perdu you are walking on extremely thin ice making the libelous claim that my company is a spammer. Within minutes of you contact my company about the email you received, my staff responded and within the same business day provided you the information you requested. We also apologized for the mistake in including you in an email invitation to our free webinar.

You receiving that single (ONE) email from us was a mistake. We took responsibility for it and apologized. Yet you went ahead and posted this ridiculous claim on a platform like Hacker News. Your intent is 100% malicious. It is designed to hurt CoFoundersLab and bosiDNA.com. Why? Because you received one stupid email? Come on man. It was a mistake.

Had you received multiple emails and no response when you contacted us, I can understand taking the time to make this post. At that point, you would be well intentioned to make the claim that my company is a "spammer".

I think you've crossed a line of human decency by taking our apology for a manual glitch while uploading an email list and turned it into some sort of "knight in shining armor" act to protect the world from "spammers" like my company.

Do some homework on my company - and the amazing impact we are having on entrepreneurship around the world. Read articles all over the world about us and then you and other readers of this post decide if we need to spam anyone...for anything...ever.

Let's all be productive and do things to help others - rather than try and tear things down.

intellegacy - I looked you up and see that you also took the BOSI assessment. You received the same email pain_perdu did. Please accept my apology. That was a mistake on our part internally when sending out the invitation. We have not emailed CofoundersLab users in the past. This was a goof on our part. Hope you enjoyed the process of taking the assessment - and your results. I hope we added value to your entrepreneurial journey - and will always be here to serve in any way we can.

And one last thing pain_perdu - we don't "sell coaching services". We're one of the most successful non-tech Accelerators in the US. Won several awards for economic impact and job creation in just the last 12 months. Haven't won an award for spamming yet though. But maybe someday...
I don't have a list, and I'm not seeing this as a competition. If you want to see where the GII data comes from I'm sure it's on their website.
The reason medical schools cap the number of entrants is the same reason they raise tuition exponentially - it's expensive to run a medical school. It has nothing to do with the number of applicants.

Also, 25 hours per week? My wife is a physician. Nobody at her hospital works less than 60. Most work 80 or more. Surgeons are close to 100. For many full time primary care physicians, it works out to about $10 / hour when first starting out.
@neya yessir, or as production ready as Node.js + express + socket.io is. Here's our roadmap:
https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/wiki/roadmap
You seem to be hellbanned; I'm not sure why. This is the last comment of yours I can reply to.
Thank you :) Shortly afterwards, someone posted this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373342

One of those things with timing I guess, right?
Google Now and knowledge graph, that's their new direction and a right one i must say.
Yes, that is what I am saying

Free speech? So what FREE speech does AppGratis do?
Help me out here, has Apple blocked Spotify, Dropbox and etc?

Hey, politicians are corrupt by default, so bribery is NOT as shocking as you make it sound like. Not sure why you have a tough time swallowing that pill. Especially EU politicians.

Not saying it's a monetary thing, could be a friends or associations thing. Or that they are interested in that 9m revenue in French taxes. As we both are aware of, France needs that money badly.

Don't play stupid, imagine if Apple let all apps wait for 2-3 months for thorough research before allowing an app to get onboard.

It's easy for you to say that they should have done it from the get go, but things take time.

People reported, Apple had research done and finally could come to the conclusion they are on now.

I can't believe your arguments, you're actually saying that Apple can't change it's mind after finding more evidence.
Are you sure? When I did my MBA a few years ago, student loans were about 6.5%, and I thought I heard that rates were lower today.
Whatever happened to cuil?
A lot of folks also found this intro video useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK-tFvpIR7c

Also, we have a google group and irc channel (#sailsjs on freenode) More on that here: sailsjs.org
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That county DA doesn't give a shit how rich you are. Being rich doesn't get you out of "poor people" crimes that revolve around physical evidence (as opposed to "rich people" crimes that revolve around knowledge/intent).

There's a great scene in "Michael Clayton" where a rich banker calls his lawyer because he hit a bicyclist in his car and fled the scene. The lawyer basically tells him: "I don't know what you think I can do for you, you're fucked." It's a realistic depiction of this situation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ckEptxp3s.
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Ironic/meta: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34942
Just because there are old-money families doesn't mean they're a major part of the class system. Larry Ellison doesn't have fewer privileges than Bill Gates. The Clintons don't have fewer privileges than the Bushes.
"My takeaways from exploring this topic and advice to other marketers that want to have software people work for them is:

1. Realize that you have the most leverage going from version 0 to 1.0. We're also best suited for software products that are not being sold to other software people.

2. Find out how to get traction without the help of any software person by using free and existing and doing things offline.

3. Have very specific goals for you market tests. Also, relay on something that is more tangible then "readers" or "users". Cash is the best kind of market research. These two posts are great about how to test markets and get pre-sales. Close your Sales Funnel and Sell a Product Before It's Ready

4. Build REAL RELATIONSHIPS within your market."

I think that you are talking more about starting a company rather than running a company.
Well, what if both were drunk? Then who raped whom? Keeping aside the widely accepted stereotype that only men can rape women.

PS. A generic question. Not related to the crime mentioned in OP.
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What, you mean that performing arbitrary permutations and transpositions on a ciphertext until it produces garbage that vaguely resembles actual words in various disjoint places isn't actually cracking the code?!
That's race/age not wealth. If it had been a young, rich, black guy in an Escalade what do you think a jury would have done?
Quit speculating. They weren't spamming viagra, they were promoting apps. As an iOS developer from day 1, who has had to deal with plenty of superfluous demands from Apple to get apps approved, I'm incredibly grateful to the French gov. for pushing back.
I disagree, many physician jobs offer loan repayment (of up to $200k) while offering salaries in the upper 300-400s (for many specialties). Surgeons can easily make seven figures depending on what they are doing.

You also have to factor in the job security, the fact that transitions to other roles does not entail a pay cut (as in law or finance) and the potential to be your own boss (run your own practice).

Doctors who make little money (the reason the average is so low) is because they choose to work less hours and spend time with family and friends. It's not as bleak as you think.
I'm an iOS developer as well. Never had issues getting app onboards there, and believe me, some apps did not even deserve to get there.

Quit playing the victim card, Apple does not owe you shit. Switch to Android and smile.
After all, you're a pragmatic developer.

Jeez, promoting apps my ass - they were extorting people for sending out spam via push notifications.
If you can do so much, why not build a bitcoin exchange directly? It's not like currency exchanges are that much a commodity for you to sell. Mmm... aren't you a bit like making excuses for not trying? ;)

No seriously, if you made a bitcoin exchange site with the same copy, that's the one I would use. Well. If I wanted to buy Bitcoin again. You know, a superhardened style, paranoid exchange. Maybe with its paranoid wallet too, dunno'. So do it.
Remember this guy? Two elections later, he's still a Congresman
I hope what you're trying to say is that you can avoid debt by opting to serve in the military, including 4 years as a doctor after med school.

Any assocation between serving in the military and being "not good enough to attend a public medical school" is offensive and unwarranted.
Agreed here. Guess I'm thinking the best way to get this functionality into homes though is with a board spin of a embedded linux platform (i.e. RPi) that people could install into a wallbox.

A bluetooth speaker-like package would probably be fine too.
"I don't hate it" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement.
I don't understand the point of having a bunch of little exchanges running on the same backend. Why not just have one?
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Yes, I particularly find that part interesting where he/she goes on to say that we become adults right when the mid-night clock ticks after 17 years, 364 days and 23:59 hours[^] of our lives.

[^]PS. No maths please.
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If you think Android is any better in this regard, you've missed the point. Maybe we should have just sat back and smiled when 100+ corporations and the US gov worked together to draft SOPA. After all, GoDaddy does not owe me shit.

I'm not concerned with their shady business practices. It takes 5 seconds to uninstall an app, I do it all the time.
Pure and perfect competition has never existed in the real world, however - it's a theoretical modeling tool to remove complexities when describing interactions. The real world has to deal with asymmetric information and product differentiation. In other words, price is not the only signal driving supply and demand.

It also has to deal with the dynamic disequilibrium that is caused by entrepreneurship and innovation, which "creatively destroys" previous markets in favor of new ones. It is this process that is the source of all profit and economic growth, at least according to Schumpeter.
> From what I see, the solution looks correct. Cool!

On what basis do you reach that conclusion?
Your politicians owe you shit. Your argument is moot.

No I get your point, you want the Appstore to allow you to conduct questionable business. Good call there.
Who needs the cleartext when you can have "I VOW TO BERLIN FUCk THe POlice ALWAYS"?
This post gave me a headache. I guess yelling BLACK! WHITE! When something is a drab gray gets page views, but don't people get tired of having the same arguments? Incidentally, I think engineering culture is very important- the trick is to have engineering permeate and bolster strong sales and marketing, not to handicap one in favor of the other.
I am not an Apple fanboy, but I fully support Apple's decision to remove AppGratis from the store.

It is pointless to argue if it was bribery that caused Pellerin to do this, but it is obvious that she is mistaken.

>but Apple was OK with it being on their store, and approved updates, up until days before it was pulled, and they continue to allow similar apps to operate on their store.

Allowing it in the App Store in the first place is a bad decision, but there is no reason they should have not removed it now. They also removed similar apps several months ago.
For what it's worth, because this definitely has confused some people (particularly on Wikipedia): Kryptos is a puzzle sculpture, created by an artist commissioned by the CIA (which so far as I know had no direct input into the sculpture, but paid handsomely for it).

It's not, so far as I know, a "real" cryptosystem. (CIA isn't the center of crypto research for the USG; that's NSA).
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Agreed... an exchange is more useful the more volume it has.
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Now that we are in a first to file system, will that actually invalidate it?
There are Stafford loans at 6.5% but they only go up to like $20k/year. GradPLUS covers the bulk of the cost and is at 7.9%.
I think you've misread trhtrsh. 'Let people earn it in healthy ways, by their contributions, not their accumulations.'

This view is that rich people should only be respected for their contributions "back to the society which has enriched them." Not for their ability to acquire and hold $100+ million.

I believe also that the point about 'selling "personal advertising space" on the sides of libraries' is meant to include the Carnegie libraries. Some 2,509 were built between 1883 and 1929. It coincided with a big increase in interest in town planning and personal enrichment.

I think the Carnegie libraries example highlights possible limitations to trhtrsh's optimistic views of philanthropy. The libraries were successful in part because of the Carnegie Formula. For example, towns had to "demonstrate the need for a public library" and "annually provide ten percent of the cost of the library's construction to support its operation."

This was chosen instead of, say, an endowed institution because "an endowed institution is liable to become the prey of a clique. The public ceases to take interest in it, or, rather, never acquires interest in it. The rule has been violated which requires the recipients to help themselves. Everything has been done for the community instead of its being only helped to help itself." (I'm cribbing directly from Wikipedia for these quotes.)

That observation from 150 years still rings true today. Some types of philanthropy aren't good for the society. Any sort of "social status" must bear that in mind. Alas, social status is not easy to define, and mistakes or problems caused by a case of bad philanthropy may easily be misattributed.
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There's an opensource exchange being built, albeit with a terrible name (IMO)

https://github.com/buttercoin/buttercoin
Although this might not be the right way to do it, I think the goal of the project is to exemplify bitcoin's "distributedness" and minimize the reliance on a single exchange (ie MtGox).
Researching apps take time. Either they let developers wait months in order to get them onboard or conduct more thorough research retroactively.
Yes, you should launch without a product. Yes, you should get orders. Yes to all of that. But you are missing an important thing. A lot of world changing companies out there started without a business plan, much less a sale. It was about trying to see what could be done with X. Sales people don't get this. Tech is not only about making a quick buck, but about creating new things altogether. Sometimes, those new things can't simply be sold from the start. Sometimes they are not even defined. Just an idea.
There was plenty of resistance to corporate power in response to SOPA. And it was absolutely justified.

Right, because selling virtual Smurf Gold Coins is totally legit but charging developers for access to a marketing funnel is evil. Give me a break.
It is Siri minus a lot of the language processing. I'm glad to see interest in the topic since this is the type of thing I am currently working on a http://www.stremor.com

But Wolfram alpha has a lot of things missing, and lots of the things it does are way longer than I want to hear a computer read to me.

Maybe if the author combined this with our TLDR api, and our Sentence parsring API, and our Fact search API...

(yes if you use all of our API's you can build this in about and hour and have it do a lot more) hint hint
Even though it is licensed to allow it, not giving credit to the creator of the hero image on this site is a little unkind.

http://redd.it/1c4er5
"... our technology is secured by state of the art techniques such as OS-less deployment, eliminating a large variety of exploits."

OS-less deployment? Are they using Erlang on Xen?

I'm just guessing since I know Yurii is an Elixir (a flavour of Erlang) core developer.
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The US doesn't have a federal VAT style tax although there may be some shenanigans with imports. However most (but not all) states have sales taxes. Its actually worse than that - depending on where a sale happens it can be a combination of state, county and city taxes! For example in California here are the rates for purchases made in cities beginning with H (randomly picked letter) http://www.boe.ca.gov/cgi-bin/rates.cgi?LETTER=H&LIST=CI...

As is usual in the land of the free, there is corporate welfare going on and car purchases are taxed based on where the consumer lives not where the purchase is made as for all other purchases.

Here is the California sales tax FAQ http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/faqpurch.htm - note how section 8 says barter is covered so possibly a kid swapping stuff may be covered.

Here is the list of exemptions (PDF) http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/pub61.pdf but that is only at a California level (my city charges a tax for utility usage of phone, gas and electricity).

I'm a foreigner living in the US and cheating on taxes seems very pervasive here. I don't know anyone who reported their Amazon purchases even though they needed to. The resentment mainly seems to be because they think others are doing a better job at finding loopholes and undetected cheats, with consequent resentment being a "sucker" for paying more as a consequence.
I use knockout.js too and I had a look at your code: although you seem to follow a lot of best practices, I noticed your code is not minified. Any reason why?
The game provides visual entertainment and doesn't extort people. You pay for a game.