skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn't be a bad idea IFF there were rev-share. If MtGox made $x/yr for their customers now, servicing the US ones badly, selling the US market to a better-capitalized, better-operated US entity might make them more money.

In a rapidly growing market like bitcoin, selling their entire future earning potential without revshare would be pretty silly, though.
The allowance of only one important is a feature not a bug. If everything is important than nothing is.
Surely the NSA has hashes of nearly everything on the internet (bloom filters, perhaps?). Finding images that didn't match would be a simple and automated task. There isn't even a need for the person doing the scan to know that it's porn -- from the point of view of the hash database, porn, system files, and ripped DVDs all fall into the category of "seen before, not interesting."

After the forensics team found files that didn't match the DB, they would have a good reason to investigate further and officials / the media wouldn't let nekked bodies stop them from commenting.

Porn would make a poor choice of background media because reverse image search is ubiquitous. Finding the originals would be easy, and showing that the differences between the stego'd images and the originals didn't happen via compression would probably not be too hard either.

If the encryption is good they probably wouldn't get any further than that. Still, any significant quantity of hidden files would generate a large body of evidence that would be very difficult to explain away.

Why go to the trouble of hiding info on the hard drive of a guy who was already under suspicion when a prerecorded skype call or controlled packet latency system would make for a stego medium that was much harder to detect and easier to plausibly deny?
When that type of terrible thing happens in India (at least these days) it's headline news. Are you seriously suggesting that these things never happen in any developed country?

Ignorance is bliss. Let me spell it out for you. THERE IS NOTHING FUN OR EXCITING ABOUT IT.

As a rule of thumb, when you make hyperbolic statements like this, it becomes very easy to not take you seriously.
Quasar actors consume even less memory. An idle actor occupies about 500 bytes.
> You wouldn't easily get officials to analyze those files together with a forensics team. That scenario is awkward.

Why, naked bodies make the FBI blush?
This "historians" theory is a version of anthropology. Except it's missing one key piece. The orthodoxy holds that heavy plows and other strenuous activity leads to miscarriage. People can call all the other evidence as speculative but this assertion is much harder to dismiss.
Jakejake, perhaps I've said it before, but it bears repeating: your reaction to and participation in this project has been precisely the kind we hoped it would see (but weren't sure we'd actually see in practice). Thank you very much for joining in and having fun with it. It sounds like you've been able to get some increased performance from your tuning, and I hope you don't mind us feeling a little bit of pride in having inspired that.

Some readers may feel we are attempting to paint some frameworks in a poor light. Yes, we do have favorites, but we are absolutely intent on keeping this open and fair. If we're doing something wrong, help us fix it! A pull request is very happily received.

When I read reactions of that sort, I selfishly want to point the author to Jakejake's comments to demonstrate how awesome it is to see a framework improving. Speaking of that, I want to eventually have the ability to show performance over time (e.g., compare Round 1 to Round X) as a potentially interesting illustration of a framework's intent to improve performance.

Also, thanks for the idea for a future test. That sounds like a good one.
I have a colleague here in Beijing that says Taobao is his "best friend forever" because of this kind of thing. :)
Login on mtgox down for anyone else?

I wonder if this is causing a run on the bank...
I think the cash cow is other big companies that see the samples, negotiate a price, and then place a large order.
I played portal via steam on Linux years ago!

(OK so that was wine, but it worked pretty well :)
You got a better demo that runs in a web browser without plug-ins?
Exactly, and if there is such a performance boost, having the numbers would help you figure out whether hardware savings would be worth the licensing cost.
Where is Sal?
It can also be self-destructive. Such is the case with subtle Wikipedia vandalism.
Rate of a return is way too crude a measure. Real Estate is more stable, tax advantaged and most crucially to your wealth creation, the only investment class where John Q. Public can get 4:1 leverage (or better!).
What should Google Glass price be when it reaches 2014 release date?
Wow, it was fun to read this again. This essay is how I first found out about Paul Graham and Hacker News. I was looking up graduation speeches because I was writing one for my 12th grade English class. It's neat to come back to it now that I'm about to graduate college!
I'm thinking now of how nice a time the person replacing me at that last job is going to have. They'll try the documented way to start services and run tests, and those things will work on the first try. You're welcome, whoever you are :)
"7. The Agreement provides that the Defendants “irrevocably consent to the personal jurisdiction of and venue in the state and federal courts located in King County, Washington withrespect to any action, claim or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement.”"
I asked via twitter:

https://twitter.com/vvuk/status/330119715546624000

some known bugs that cause us to use way too much transient memory while loading. Fixes incoming.
not Confederates it was the Democrats that argued it
The story is so baller and I met them and visited them while they were still cramped on futons. The dudes have stuff that legends are made of. Looking forward to more good things from you guys. Just as inspirational as mount fuji that I'm seeing through my shinkansen Window. Totally worth tapping off on the phone for this.
I can say from personal experience that the customers are probably a bit of both. Engineers walk through looking for parts for their prototypes, and then once the prototypes are complete, come back and set up a contract for 1,000's more of the exact same part for the production run.

To me, that is the real benefit. In America, you can make your prototypes with parts from Digikey or Fry's, but if you actually wanted to make a production run, you have to source all your parts from scratch.
This guy is a real life Ryan Howard. Wow.
Sure. We now have two pending issues, one of which is a pull request. If you can weigh in and perhaps contribute some review time to the PR in particular, that would be very appreciated!

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/239

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/15...
People Still Don't Know what I do
Thanks a lot man. It means a lot to us.
You must not remember the story of the golden calf. There are plenty examples of worshiping domesticated animals.
Is http://getsimpleform.com/ too basic? No affiliation, I came across it when making something similar
CoinLab sues Bitcoin exchange MtGox
Coinlab's website say the transition should be completed by May 6th[1]. Their latest update was April 10, where he mentions going to Tokyo to sort out the details[2], looks like the deal soured in the past few weeks.

[1] http://coinlab.com/transition

[2] http://coinlab.com/status-4-10
And for the HN-censored Gawker link: http://gawker.com/massive-bitcoin-business-partnership-devol...
Enhancing Angular Promises: Returning new promise of field or method called
I like the looks of that! Could I convince you to put together a test as a pull request? :)
I used to like Windows' font rendering (when they introduced ClearType), but after having to Mac OS X about five years ago and using an iPhone and iPad for a couple of years I'm so used to Apple's font rendering that Windows looks really ugly to me... Quite subjective though.

Perhaps it's partially due to the fact that Mac laptops and iDevices have higher quality displays than typical Windows machines?
Toshiba's First Notebook and Laptop: Underground Innovation and Skunk works
There were non-flip decks with a play button for the Side B side. That play button pointed left. But this tape direction is playing the Side A track.

Teac double auto reverse deck:

http://cachepe.zzounds.com/media/quality,85/CASS_202mkIII_SP...
You're correct and personally I would never underestimate the NSA/FBI or any other organization.

Remember Aaron Schwartz.

But there is too much evidence that they might be much less professional and less equipped with such high-quality hash-databases.

I don't believe that they could allocate enough professional resources (in such a "low priority" target) to actually give clearance of the case and green lights to the officers with certainty. If the porn movies are avis and 700mb, but with SD-quality, then you couldn't notice the difference.

Take 20 porn files porn-a.avi (500MB original or 600MB with hidden data) There are so many rips or rips of rips that you cannot have a complete porn-database. And phew 2GB of compressed and hidden Data. Even if he didn't have used Steganography, he could easily use imageshack.us, imgur.com and other file-hosting sites, heck even upload to porn-sites to hide the data. Additionally you could get bad hashes into your database, when they upload the porn movies themself.
I'm going to go ahead and be pedantic: that format is not part of the SMTP spec. It's part of the Internet Message Format RFC (5322 in its latest incarnation), which describes what's in the body of the email.

The SMTP spec (RFC 5321) which describes what goes on the wire between an SMTP client and an SMTP server uses addresses in a '<to@example.com>' format.
"You can't do genius level work 40 hours a week for 52 weeks and not burn out."

Sometimes you can't do 20 hours a week, or even 10.

A lot depends on the person, what their emotional state is, whether the work is stressful or not, how they deal with stress, how their coworkers, bosses, and customers behave, etc.

Sadly, most companies still treat their employees like robots, and expect them to put work first ahead of all other priorities (above physical and mental health, above sleep, above family, above having any sort of life outside of work).

Very sad, and there's really no indication that things are changing for the better for workers. In fact, with all the outsourcing, "free trade" agreements, and rabid opposition to unions in the tech sector, it's become a race to the bottom.
eww, you got me in a moment where I was almost thinking of them in a too romantic way. I've fallen down to reality and can imagine now how their forensic team could possibly enjoy those movies on a (4k/HD Laser) Projector..
Erlang the Movie II - The Sequel
Why do you even need this engine when the beautiful physics of the Quake 3 engine already have roots in HTML5? You do not, that's the answer.
The effectiveness of a tool as a function of its weight is not necessarily linear either.
Awesome! I added a little edit section on the post to point people their. That's really neat!
And hey, "reading." Since I'm reading right now, I hope to be motivated again RSN.
Whomever wrote that headline missed a much more significant, and painfully biting, point:

"Jiang, a former contractor at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, had recently been let go by his employer because of pressure from Republican congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia. Wolf had claimed Jiang and other Chinese engineers employed by NASA contractors were a security risk."

"But it quickly became apparent that Jiang was at worst guilty of violating NASA policies. [...] Jiang had not had clearance to such projects at Langley as an employee of the National Institute of Aerospace"

"A press release issued by Wolf after the arrest and copy of Jiang's arrest warrant have since disappeared off the the congressman's website. In the release (cached by Google here), Wolf had said, 'I am particularly concerned that (the) information (on Jiang's laptop) may pertain to the source code for high-tech imaging technology that Jiang has been working on with NASA. This information could have significant military applications for the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army.'"

Confirmed, the USA has entered back into full McCarthyism. Request title change to 'Chinese contractor fired on suspicion by Republican senator'.
This is a great tool. +1
As a software engineer in industrial automation, I'd have to agree. Writing code for a robot is definitely the simplest step in building robots. Designing hardware, drawing up electrical diagrams, and actually building the damn thing are where the real challenges lie.
The CIA also covertly funded an "Anglo-American left-of-centre" literary journal named "Encounter".

More details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounter_(magazine)

And here: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
The scale is definitely different, but my main point is that its very likely a local phenomenon. People might read this and assume stuff like this is everywhere in China.

Although it might be like that.
The image used in the research papers is a tight crop around the face, and sorry to disappoint I dont find anything suggestive there. Pretty yes, suggestive no. Answers to questions like that depend a lot on the ambient culture. Some conservative cultures might find it provocative, sometimes an just and unveiled face is considered so.
The Duo-Security people, who have an Android Token claim to use the secure element in NFC enabled phones. It is a TOTP token and can be used just like the Google Authenticator. You don't have to use Duo-Security's system to use it (though there system is worth looking at if you are rolling out your own authentication system).
Everything was developed in the open from day 1. We are not hiding anything there. If you get a Keon from Geeksphone, you'll get a good idea of how it performs on low-end hardware similar to the one that will be sold by the first carriers. And it's pretty good I think. (disclaimer: I'm a Mozilla employee working on b2g)
Books with incorrect data can essentially never be changed. Wikipedia pages can be changed immediately.
It sounds like you have a good manager, so we have different experiences.

Let me explain my Google manager. His MO was, about 1-2 months in, to use fake performance problems to get people to disclose health problems, then use knowledge of their health issues to toy with them. I have tons of evidence for a pattern of this with him. I also have (verbally) that HR knows it to be a long-standing problem, but does nothing because if a manager has a reputation for "delivering", that's carte blanche to treat reports however one wishes.

HR's job is to step in and right things when managers fail, and at Google, they refuse to do that. They see their job as to protect managers. I know that most companies are this way, but it's disgusting.

There are a lot of abuses of power by management at Google, and HR does nothing about it. The going ideology is that if a manager is "delivering", his word is gold. Combine this with a Kafkaesque nightmare of closed allocation, and you get a lot of ugliness.

I have nothing but respect for the vast majority of the engineers I met at Google. But I cannot respect a management structure that thinks closed allocation is appropriate for a tech company, or that making political-success reviews part of the transfer process is morally acceptable. Google's performance review system is a play-for-play copy of Enron's. This has completely fucked up what should otherwise be an awesome technology company.

I would actually support a class-action suit by Google's shareholders against the managers who instituted closed allocation and calibration scores (breach of fiduciary duty). Those assholes are guilty of destroying several billion dollars worth of value, and justice should be sought against them. Employees who were burned by that horrible system should also be plaintiffs in this suit, because that shit fucks up peoples' careers, too. It's just all-around wrong.
In the US, thankfully, pro-consumer laws require telcos and wireless carriers to let you take your number. With some restrictions, a number from anything can end up on anything.

So no, not possible to detect using rules. It is possible using a telco routing lookup.

More details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/744227/web-based-api-that...
Once Linux has good device drivers, someone will release a highly optimized distribution for gaming. Afterwards, I think Linux will start to become the leading desktop OS.
This is really great. I worked along side these guys (strikingly) in the same cafe in SF, hacking away for a while before they got into YC. These guys are humble and really doing it right.

They took what others just see as a clone of weebly and have added enough USP to prove that it's all execution. They had customers even while sitting in the little Cafe in SF and have growing fast through sheer force of will !

Biggest thing, humble, not afraid to ask for help and thick as thieves.

These guys are what every entrepreneur should be trying to attain in a team !
"EDIT: Shame the damages they're demanding are in USD rather than bitcoin :)"

Are they suing in a US court? Then the damages will be stated in the currency that the court deals in, in other words, USD.
is Firefox OS based on Android?
> controlled packet latency system

That sounds very cool. Do you have any interesting links about it?
You're assuming a single piece of information has a single key-pair. E.g.:

1. Obtain sensitive information
2. Generate a new key-pair
3. Encrypt with public key
4. Store encrypted info
5. Delete public key
6. Use private key to decrypt when reading the data

It's also likely they they were using one key-pair to encrypt all of their data (or all of a specific type, e.g. one key-pair to encrypt all passwords). In this case, the public key would be needed to encrypt new data coming in.
> Instead there is a protocol of credits and debits and a settlement process to work out the exceptions.

Exactly--the ecosystem as a whole is BASE, but the individual systems are ACID, and the "eventual consistency" aspect is implemented as first-class logic in applications/processes.

I think BASE is a good ecosystem-level principle, but when it gets into datastores, then each individual system doesn't know what it's true opinion of the world is, much less how it can effectively coordinate with other similarly potentially confused systems.
I've seen whole threads disappear for nothing more than meta-(calling out the censorship).

Meta threads aren't allowed, so it shouldn't be surprising that those are deleted.

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.
Oh, wicked. Giving it a shot tonight :)
Being able to automate this right makes me sleep better.
>That scenario is awkward.

You are clearly mistaken. I recently read a paper about people who's jobs involve sitting down and looking at child abuse photos, and then trekking off to the councillor. A few blurry porn videos are nothing compared with that.
"hating on" is another such, er, phrase that I hate.
I've listened to and read quite a few commencement speeches, and DFW's is the only one that made an actual impact on my life. I think to myself "this is water" at least once every day or two and it helps me to realign my perspective.
That's a good start, but as you said is very basic. The JSON data would be useful for determining if a spot is taken but it doesn't have a nice way to view all the entries (without building that yourself).
If the attacker has open access to the network (from compromised machines), does the password to the admin console matter as much?
If your value proposition is "I've got a better mower", sure. If not, work on your value proposition, the rest is fluff. Unless close.io's business model is "allowing you to enter information easily" (it might be, I don't know what they do), they shouldn't bother with it for the MVP.
Exhibit A: http://ia601700.us.archive.org/8/items/gov.uscourts.wawd.192...

RECAP'ed docket: http://ia601700.us.archive.org/8/items/gov.uscourts.wawd.192... (via BitcoinTalk https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=193888.0;all )
There is dirty money and then there is dirty dirty money.
This is really great. I worked along side these guys (strikingly) in the same cafe in SF, hacking away for a while before they got into YC. These guys are humble and really doing it right.

They took what others just see as a clone of weebly and have added enough USP to prove that it's all execution. They had customers even while sitting in the little Cafe in SF and have growing fast through sheer force of will !
Biggest thing, humble, not afraid to ask for help and thick as thieves.

These guys are what every entrepreneur should be trying to attain in a team !
whoa... ok, I didn't know that I'm that naive. Thanks for opening my eyes. Yes now I remember that there are people, behind the cameras that monitor how people are getting tortured.. someone is always doing the dirty job, even when nobody wants to know it.
Now that's one inspiring story. $1600 a month in the Bay Area for 3 people? Holy shit. You gotta wonder how these guys did it...
Daughter voices anger at mom found after 11 years
Apparently he /login page works, only the front page doesn't.
I just read this moments after giving in, allowing my dad to take a 401k loan in exchange for the title to my car (I insisted) to help me pay rent and keep my startup dreams afloat a cpl more months. Humility doesn't come easy for some of us. Thank you for sharing Will. I really needed to read this today.
The Utility and Drawbacks of Translation Apps
To the best of my knowledge, China doesn't do much design work locally. Most factories simply build whatever is on the blueprint which they receive from the West.
I guess it's a good thing for them that's almost entirely impossible then...so I guess they'll just have to enjoy ignorance.
Isn't slate disrupting the use of disrupt?
What I particularly find valuable about CS graduates is (1) the algorithmic knowledge usually taught in the upper class courses and (2) the language about the theory and craft. Math people can shift into the algorithmic knowledge without going through mental twists. Some physics people too.

I don't find other engineering majors as amenable to the abstraction qua abstraction that CS pushes. I in particular have had bad experiences with EEs. YMMV.

The language thing is sort of a big deal: when I talk about asymptotic complexity and reason about the math underlying a difficult problem, it's good to be on the same page with my audience. CS majors are taught that, even if they forgot it since.

It's not something specific and magic to CS majors: its just that higher order abstractions are sort of in the curriculum of computer science and math more than others. They can be learned online or from a textbook; it's not some sort of magic only available in a CS course can. :-) And, as you pointed out, diversity brings a great benefit. I find my colleagues with physics, music, IT, and digital media degrees to have very valuable insights, even though we do have communication difficulties occasionally.
Previous submission with some comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5643426