skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, am I the only one to find that a little bit strange? pardon me for the cross reference but it feels like this should be on /r/nottheonion
That's awesome - thanks!
Wow, an officer was FIRED for speeding. That should be the headline right there. I was beginning to think it was impossible for a cop to get themselves fired.
I'm not a 1Password user. What's a common number of PBKDF2 rounds to have it configured for? What's the default?
Yes, I've been burned by enough one- or two-hit wonders to not just assume the next item will be good. World of Goo was another example; they then made Little Inferno, which while continuing their trend of uniquely beautiful art, was unbelievably monotonous and shallow to play, a stark contrast to the game that made their name. XCOM was another example - XCOM remake! Take my money! How bad can it be? Well, they could strip out the strategy part of the game altogether, giving it zero replayability.
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> This found its reductio in Bryan Caplan, who suggested that voters are rationally ignorant of politics because the costs outweigh the benefits, and so economists (who are obviously right about everything) should dictate public policy. You know, like in Chile.

Allende was overthrown for his abuses of power after calls from the parliament and the supreme court. Economic policy was a complete afterthought.

> Chicago School economists managed to persuade first legal theorists, and then those involved in the legal system itself, of the efficacy of their way of thinking, eventually forming the ‘law and economics’ ... Nor should it surprise you that the movement had a large degree of – ahem – ‘support’ from various moneyed interests.

Sasha Volokh: Is Law and Economics a Right-Wing Plot? http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/28943137 (the audio gets better)
I don't see any downsides to this though, could you enumerate any you can think of? For instance, I believe I an model relationships either way and accomplish the same thing with little to no difference.
IBM Sends 200 Execs To Capitol Hill in Favor of CISPA
Consider trying LVM2 snapshots instead of AUFS.
It is a response and that is all that is needed. The target audience for this just needed any rebuttal to paste into their streams to convince themselves that no adjustment of beliefs is required.
As I was watching videos and looking at all the pictures yesterday I felt like I was starting to do that in my head.
The Time Travel ChooChoo (Chrome Experiment)
You are a little pessimistic:

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

http://www.abb.com/cawp/seitp202/25b65cc026636ebfc1257574004...

(The first link describes the system that reduces energy costs in LA by carrying it in from the Columbia river system, the second one is from the company behind the technology and discusses their plan to send 6 Gigawatts over 2,000 km in China)

The economics are certainly less favorable as distance increases.
Sounds like a startup opportunity, or does craigslist already have it covered?
I think they board the plane as quickly as possible so they can get in the queue to taxi to a runway. Until the door is closed, you do not get a place in line to take off.
You're not mistaken in that there are constructions they could have used that would tie both the first and the second PBKDF2 output to the whole decryption. Their construction doesn't, and that appears to have been a mistake.

But it's not a meaningful mistake, for two reasons: (1) they were being naive about how they used PBKDF2 to begin with (again: don't call it a second time to generate a key or a nonce) and the attack on their encrypted blobs still requires a brute force attack on the first output, and (2) we're discussing a minimal improvement on the complexity of an attack on their system, but there are much bigger improvements available to them if they move off PBKDF2.

But, really: deriving keys from PBKDF2 is just fine. If they had just used PBKDF2 (once!) to generate an AES key, and then used /dev/random to generate an IV, nobody would be talking about them right now.

(For what it's worth, a CTR nonce only gives you 64 more bits to play with).
> I doubt you'd find evidence that people who have mortgages over some magic value relative to their income suddenly start getting smaller annual raises.

Tell that to the people who are underwater on their mortgages and are therefore severely handicapped financially because it's punitively expensive for them to move to find a new job if they become unemployed.

When I was living in the US in 2009 I was laid off as a part of a company wide restructuring caused by the recession. Because I rented I was able to relocate to a new job in 6 weeks. Colleagues who were underwater on their mortgages and therefore had to find a new job within commuting distance of their house took much longer to find new jobs.
The idea that this pain is a joke is pretty unfounded. It is based upon the idea that there is waste and waste and waste everywhere. If that is the case, then it should be pretty easy to target such wasteful spending, but that isn't exactly the case at all.

Also, these cuts aren't even close to what are desired by a certain segment of law makers. If that desired austerity were to be put in place, and you think agencies at trying to make an examples now, their current examples would pale in comparison to what we would see.

If it is so easy to say an agency doesn't need to cut X when they can cut Y, then pass a bill cutting Y.
I can't find anything definitive but I suspect it would be less confusing to say "created by Microsoft" than "created by IBM". It seems Microsoft developed it but IBM somehow wound up with the copyright. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
It's a neat app, but for me, I probably prefer copy paste as a note, then going through the hassle of signing up. What benefit am I missing?

Culturally, I think that sites like pinterest tend to get people to develop a hoarding habit. You hoard all your photos, or to-do projects, or in this case quotes with little thought to their use. How do you eventually revisit these quotes or do you ever? Maybe it's helpful to offload the brain's responsibility of remembering 'memorable' quotes (irony), but you're never going to impress anyone by reciting a beautiful poem off from your phone.
Wasn't this released about a year ago?
I'm on the other side. He created the first two, which I grew up with and loved, and he didn't ask me about those at all. So I'm willing to trust him.

For me, crowdfunding is more about ensuring the actual creators receive my money and avoiding the "publisher", than it's about being able to contribute to creative process.

I backed Wasteland 2 and haven't said a single word to the developers. I've looked at the preview art and video, but I wouldn't mind very much if they hadn't release those things and just showed up with a game.

However, if they did that, and the game fell flat, I might not back another. I assume most Kickstarting companies realize the preview/updates are not "owed" to backers, but are in fact an opportunity to preview (e.g. test) with a highly engaged and invested audience, thus mitigating the risk of failure of their final product.
It's kind of a weird article. The title blames SO, the text exonerates them, blames Google, backs off of that, all without ever explicitly stating what the "problem" is. Problem in quotes because I'm not convinced that "I run a search and get a link to a perfect answer delivered to me in 0.31 seconds" is bad.
Apple has the public's eye, which is why they're getting picked on, just like Nike was a few years ago.

The fact that Apple enjoys such fat margins makes them look, at least to some people, that bit more egregious than their competitors.

I don't know if the Pulitzer was deserved or not, but I feel it was a tech story worth covering.
+ Hey do you take paypal?
- Yeah...actually I do...
+ Nice...so let's bump phones and then bump uglies!
+ Oh...can you put "consulting fee" in the notes....this is a business expense...
So, my theory is that Day of the Tentacle had voice so early (as optional add-on packs for those rare systems that could use them rather than part of the base install, that's how early this was; voice packs that could fill up your meager little hard drive) that nobody involved realized that game voice acting was "supposed" to suck. System Shock is another example of the same effect. Both of those games are wonderful and completely stand up to the best of modern voice acting. It wasn't until later that voice acting really started to suck hard.
Ask HN: Are the rejection emails out for YC S13?
It's past 5pm PST so I'm guessing folks have started getting acceptance/rejection emails by now.
There has definitely been additional libraries added since the making of "Gorillas", but still it's pretty impressive. He's been posting updates to /r/gamedev (http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/12urov/im_making_a_...)
Yes, bad wording on my part. I used to be in the "looks don't matter at all" camp - and there are very many "ugly" games that I have thoroughly enjoyed. However, if you look at the way our brains are wired, one of the ways that we derive "fun" is on a strictly visual level. I think that traditional pixel art is inherently "fun" because it follows rigorous guidelines that produce something most people think is visually pleasing, yet at the same time challenges the brain to interpret it (vs. something that is completely realistic). Like anything else, fun derived from visual stimulus can wear off when it becomes "ordinary" - which is why seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time is thrilling, but seeing it 100 times is considerably less so.

In other words, yes the game would be great regardless of its looks - but a visually pleasing setting only helps the cause.
Same here. Just bought tickets for SF -> NY -> London and back, and no matter how you slice it, you're paying a $500 "crossing the Atlantic" fee. SF -> NY hovers around $300-$350, but good luck finding a flight from NY -> UK for less than $1000, even though the flight is only 30% longer.
Where is MySQL innovation nowadays?
Going by one technical definition, no.

If you look at the whole picture you have to either say that this extended period of higher unemployment is the new 'natural rate of unemployment' or admit that something might be off.
They got away with it because they're cops.They sped outrageously (literally) because they knew they'd face no consequences. That's an abuse of public trust and duty, whether they're on or off duty.
Back then Microsoft was working for IBM, so it's not that surprising that IBM ended up with the copyrights for QBASIC. What's more surprising is that IBM didn't end up buying the whole of DOS outright (but that's another topic entirely).

Also, I seem to recall reading (or seeing a video interview) where Bill Gates said QBASIC was his last ever coding job.
Slant has a good thread on the topic

http://slant.co/topics/586
However, I'd assume a password like:

thisisthepasswordthatiwilluseonhackernews

would still be relatively hard to crack?
Nope, not yet. It varies, the time they send them out isn't set in stone or anything.

I do love how you titled it as rejection emails though.
After thinking about this for a while I propose "aggregates of stardust" instead of "meat bags" ^^
One was. Out of 800 found. That should also be a headline.
Ann Arbor is expensive, and has very limited employment options. It's a good place to start a company, but a very bad place to move to.
The officer fired was the one "who sparked the project", that is, the one that was pulled over (after refusing to stop) by a state trooper, if I remember correctly.

It sounds like no police officers were fired as a result of this investigation.
No I'm not. I know what your argument is, and it's disingenuous. It's like saying that you only have one pet in your apartment while glossing over the fact that the pet is an elephant.

Nobody disputes the idea that more debt can result in slower growth. But there's a huge difference between saying that growth with high debt levels has historically been about 2.2% (compared to a more desirable 3%+ with lower debt) and saying that high-debt-growth has been -0.1%. That's an error of 220% in the wrong direction.
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Local journalists got the cops fired. How the hell such a thing exists, I'm not sure.. Probably teens or funded by a local community college.
Interesting.

It looks like (from info on wikipedia pages) the Xeon Phi 3100, gets about 3.3 GFLOPS/WATT, whereas the Epiphany E64G401 manages about 50 GFLOPS/WATT.

So something like 10 of these might compare to 1 xeon phi, and still be cheaper in terms of hardware, and much cheaper in terms of power consumption.
It's written in QB64, a slightly more modern variant of QBasic. http://www.qb64.net/
Those benchmarks are for S3, not EBS.
Now that "their guy" is in the WhiteHouse, they no longer agree that it's irresponsible to set the deficit meter...

Um, no.

Speaking as a proud member of The Left, we objected to blowing the Clinton era surplus by slashing revenue, starting one (or two) unnecessary war(s), and huge wet sloppy kisses to corporations (eg scripts under Medicare Plan-D).

If Bush The Lesser had maintained full employment, deficit or not, The Left would have loved him.
Listening as a skill
The new file has the message: "This thing will open in two days. Which means it isn't open right now. Sorry, it just isn't."
CISPA vote means companies can't offer legally-binding privacy promises
Just a few points here, although most of your comment is valid.

> Well, secure if you don't count the successful double-spend attack which necessitated a holy-shit-drop-everything-and-downgrade response by several mining pool operators

You're getting your history wrong. There was a problem with older satoshi clients that caused a fork in the block chain. The fork was serious enough that all miners with newer clients were asked to temporarily downgrade. There was also somebody who took advantage of that fork to create a double-spend.

So, 1) The double spend was caused by the holy-shit moment, not the other way around. 2) There is no proof anybody lost money. Most big merchants stopped processing transactions during the fork, who knows if the transactions on the losing chain were accepted.

> designed intent of bitcoin is to fan attacker-chosen executable instructions to every node on the network

This is just fear-mongering.

The intent is to create a medium of exchange between untrusted parties. There is a scripting system that used to be run by clients when checking whether a transaction output could be spent. That system has a) never been able to do much of anything except manipulate numbers and b) been disabled for quite some time now.
It gives some hope that it's possible to police the police.
Let's institute a convention to refer to everyone by a unique identifier. Oh wait, that's prison.
Definitely. But you're also not going to stand to gain as much from writing some of the tools I'm talking about, anyway.

There will definitely always been places where software efficiency trumps programmer efficiency, but for a lot of cases, it doesn't. It's still important, just not always the most important.
I recall one of Heinlein's books addressing this problem by a different means: a genetic comparison to determine whether a bad genetic reinforcement might occur, rather than relying on the proxy of relatedness.

For Iceland's case as addressed in TFA, that's perhaps a more relevant metric -- that you might end up "crossing" with someone outside of known family, yet who is still closely related enough to present a genetic risk.

I sense a market for a Square-style "DNA chip on a headphone jack" to augment this app. ;-)
Rep Mike Rogers Claims CISPA Opponents are 14 Year Olds in Basements
Haha. I titled it that way because I expect most who will get accepted won't be checking HN as often.
>The reporters found nearly 800 officers who reached speeds of 90-130 mph, many of them while off duty. The accidents caused by officers driving at high speeds had caused at least 320 crashes since 2004, killing or maiming 21 people.

That's such a horrifying statistic if true. Even at their peak, homicide offending rates in the US were at around 20 per 100,000; assault rates about 10 times as high: http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf

Maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but in my mind I'm comparing 20 homicides per 100,000 citizens to to 21 people killed/maimed by a group that is orders of magnitude smaller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Police_Department

I think this is just another reminder that Bruce Schneier is right when he says we should be more worried about car accidents than terrorism.
Space Monkey Launching Kickstarter Campaign Tomorrow
It would be nice to see them. We future applicants would like to know what to do and what not to do.
I'm sorry, I don't have experience with the Amazon cloud, I don't know what EBS is :)
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We can agree here. And note that I had no issue with the use of the word meatbag to describe bomb effects.

It was your use of the word "ultimately" that I objected to.
I'd go for LSD, where in the US, you're charged with possession of the media as though it were the drug. A few sugar cubes later and you're in prison for life.
>This found its reductio in Bryan Caplan, who suggested that voters are rationally ignorant of politics because the costs outweigh the benefits, and so economists (who are obviously right about everything) should dictate public policy. You know, like in Chile.

At his most extreme, Caplan proposed a weighted voting system, where higher education led to more votes. That's a far cry from "dictating public policy," and even further from the Chilean system, where some Chicago-school economists had moderate influence on a dictator's economic policies and essentially zero influence on other aspects of governance (i.e., whether people should be disappeared).
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Craigslist has been out of this game for a few years now, after gov't pressure. http://www.wired.com/business/2010/09/craigslist-adult-congr...
Thanks for the reply.

One clarification: My ellipsis was supposed to indicate a continuation of my sentence, not yours. The full sentence:

It wouldn't be so bad if you just bought one Kindle and used it for the rest of your life -- but you've already decided not to do that.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. Bitcoin definitely has transaction fees which will only increase with time.
The original QBASIC binary doesn't even run on Windows any more. It requires DOSBox emulation to run.
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How would it perform on a state of the art personal computer in 1991, when Gorillas was released?
I've been planning a trip to Europe and flights to Heathrow and Barcelona from Tucson are < $1000 until Mid may. However, they all go through Atlanta or Houston instead of NY. Maybe it's a NY->UK premium? Strangely, the same flights direct from Houston or ATL to London are more than the ones from Tucson with layovers.
In points 2-3. Obviously we're used to hearing things in a certain order, and tend to copy that, but the question is why we put things in a certain order to start with. How is a 'great X Y' any more concrete than a 'green X Y'? Obviously concrete things have size, but then abstractions aren't exactly known for their coloring either :-)
Wow, as someone who played with making games using QBasic on a 486 as a pre-teen I am seriously impressed. I have to chuckle at requiring such a fast processor to run well though. Assuming the author doesn't rely on too many DOS game programming tricks (I remember having to peek and poke various memory locations to trigger esoteric video resolutions, etc.) it probably wouldn't be too hard to convert this to run on visual basic & a .net wrapper of SDL or some basic graphics library.
Despite negativity of this idea.
I think you should totally go for it! How do we know how useful it will be until it's done? There's no point speculating.

What harm can come out of this?

You could simply have all photo's uploaded and allow users to click and select things they feel might be suspicious with comments added. If items are highlighted by many users, it would show that it might be suspicious and it's worth the police looking at! That way they could order the most important and possible remove ones that they have personally looked over and think there are no problems.
Inefficiency can in itself cause injustice. For example, the cost and inefficiency of the court system discourages people from using it. This can lead to things like settling even when it's unfair. Or for a more spectacular example of inefficiency you could look at the court system in India. [1]

For a positive example, look at small claims court in the U.S. A case decided in a few minutes might result in more errors, but an efficient court system, even if somewhat less accurate, could result in better outcomes on average.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_India#Judicial_bac...
Nah. The most depressing part for me is: challenging people's flawed beliefs reinforces those flawed beliefs. Creationism, Iraq had WMDs, anthropocentric climate change, etc.

I used to believe that if only we all just talked things out, we'd come to an agreement. No more.

Now I focus on better organizing. Rallying the troops.
I definitely agree with you on all your mentioned points, but I'm unclear on a few things:

* What do you mean that it requires a brute force attack on the first output? As I understand it, the attacker doesn't need to match all 256 bits of the derived key (only the first 128 bits), so the complexity is reduced by a lot. If those match, you can just run the KDF "properly" on the passphrase you guessed and get the rest of the bits, i.e. the IV. It thus weakens PBKDF2 to only need 2002 rounds of SHA, rather than 8000, and still allows you to decrypt the whole stream.

* If they used a random IV, they'd have to include it in the stream, which wouldn't really do anything more for security. The IV doesn't matter at all now either, but at least now it's secret. This attack doesn't use the key space of AES or the IV, though, so it's a bit moot.

* The CTR nonce would prevent the attacker from taking the 128-bit "shortcut", as they'd need all 256 bits of the derived key to decrypt the last block, which is the improvement I'm referring to.

Please correct me if I'm mistaken, I find crypto very interesting and would like to know where I'm wrong.
I'm not sure you need to fire someone for driving 125mph at 4 o'clock in the morning. The punishment should fit the crime.
It wouldn't according to this:

>Black Annex requires at least a 2.6GHz processor due to the scope of the project and the unoptimized multi-dimensional arrays.
Pathetic. With such level of corruption as in Russia all money will be stolen.
No, the benchmark is not pure marketing. Why would you claim that it is? Apart from Astyanax, which clients are token aware?

That paper is very useful so thanks for posting the link but it has a number of issues as I see it.

1) It considers Cassandra, Redis, VoltDB, Voldermort, HBase and MySQL. It does not cover either MongoDB or Couchbase.

2) Latency values are given as average and do not show p95/p99. In my experience, Cassandra in particular is susceptible to high latency at these values.

3) Even considering average values, the read latency of Cassandra is higher than you would see with either MongoDB or Couchbase.

4) Cassandra does not deal well with ephemeral data. There are issues while GC'ing large number of tombstones for example that will hurt a long running system.

The long and short of it is that Cassandra is a fantastic system for write heavy situations. What it is not good at are read heavy situations where deterministic low latency is required, which is pretty much what the pinterest guys were dealing with.