skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The README has lots of really cool words and names and things. But it doesn't say what homomorphic encryption is or what it is good for. Could someone enlighten me?
Tor is not bankrupt, neither have they seen an increase in piracy. Those are pretty good results, IMHO. Sure, you probably want numbers but you aren't going to get them, especially not from a publisher smaller than Amazon.
From a french guy : We are so late on this. imo, it's just an adjustment compare to other country (like US).

There is also a lot to do to change the mentality, because the crowd don't believe in "entrepreneurship" and prefer to work directly in big company.
This is prime territory for PCA and eigenimages
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
Convenience, more disposable income becoming more knowledgable over time about the game dev business. As a 16 year old I was relatively poor and didnt think as much about the work and investment that went into games.

Also lack of time, I would never think of pirating a book or game because one will keep me going for ages. I listen to music every day though so until the streaming services come in maintaining a legal music collection as prohibitively expensive.
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> "You are going to pay me 60k initially then you are going to pay me 5k every year... the 5k every year will show that I have motivation to never reveal the pictures."

The first time I've seen a blackmailer admit to the fact that they'll just keep asking for more. But psychological effects aside, it's totally idiotic to deliberately create more opportunities to get caught.
Some nice minor gestures, but these will hardly "redefine French business as we know it."
The problems is the millennials aren't as focussed on privacy as the generations before. They're open to participating in targeted content whether it be ads, stories, offers, etc.

But this isn't to discredit privacy concerns at all. Google anonymizes its users so that individuals aren't identified. This is a better approach compared to other questionable "targeting methods".
>>The best way to prevent burnout is to follow up a serious failure with doing small things that you know are going to work.

If you are making large amounts of sacrifice towards high risk problems and failing. You are likely doing something wrong and merely backing them up with 'small wins' is not going to help and shouldn't help.

The best thing in that case is to really burnout and quit, to do things that are better rewarding.

There is nothing you are going to gain being stuck in a situation of large sacrifice-zero gain. In many such cases you are likely a victim of office politics, bureaucracy, red tape or just stuck amidst inefficient team mates. Doing small wins and maintaining the status quo will trap you much deeper and cause a far bigger burnout later.
"Fish" is not the correct English plural as a cursory examination of any English Bible written in the last 600 years will prove.

Other discussions on this site lead to the following addendum: When using the word "English" I mean English as spoken by the English in England. Not the USAian dialect.
I visited CERN a few weeks ago and totally lost it when I saw that first NeXT workstation. So awesome.
Rule 37. There is no "overkill".
What do you mean? You can do stuff like this:

ps | where { $_.name -like "*host" } | foreach { $_.id | out-host }
TL;DR: It allows you to edit encrypted stuff without decrypting it.

For example, if you had a book of everyone's salaries, you can ask Bob to add $5000 to it. Normally you'd have to give him the key, but with homomorphic encryption you can just perform operations without decrypting it and having Bob know everyone's salaries.

This becomes really powerful for stuff that you need to work with lots of data without knowing the contents of - cloud computing, for example.
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Nit pick: the Nigerian city is Lagos, and the LOTR character is Legolas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

Basically encryption dchemes that allow operations to be done on the ciphertext that give a result that can be decrypted and is correct plaintext.
"Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption which allows specific types of computations to be carried out on ciphertext and obtain an encrypted result which decrypted matches the result of operations performed on the plaintext. For instance, one person could add two encrypted numbers and then another person could decrypt the result, without either of them being able to find the value of the individual numbers."

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

I don't know much about it either.

For a recent project, I'd be interested in searching and sorting of encrypted data; I wonder if this is up to that. The tricky bit with search is that in many cases, you want to be able to search for substrings, not just an exact match.
Maybe the bigger problem for Opera will be attracting talent. I'd think twice before working for a company that had a history of suing its employees.
or prefer not to work at all :) When you see Liberation glorifying people living on RSA...
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If you're happy relying on a 3rd party site... I recommend archive.is for keeping records of pages.

http://archive.is/EOZqQ - The Imaginary Theatre ( post deletion obviously :( )
from a Indian guy, planning on coming to France for Higher Studies: France is sprinting now, when others are exhausted (USA, UK, China, India).. France is where it is right now.
Wikipedia doesn't need to care to much about SEO.
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The visa thing is nice. Simplifying capital gains tax is awesome.

I can't say that I'm a big fan of the tax breaks though. We shouldn't subsidize any business, they should fail or succeed on their own merits.
Yeah, it seems Microsoft always has had good excuses. I wonder if other browsers from that period would have as poor results as IE5 does. I seriously doubt it.
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Here's the direct link to the first web site:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
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I hadn't thought of that. Not only do Opera's direct employees need to watch their steps - but contractors too. It's almost as if they want people to go in, collect their paychecks and offer up nothing above average.
That's part of why they're dropping Presto for Blink, I think. One of the blogs I read on it mentioned that a lot of time and money was going into keeping Presto up to date with what developers were doing (such as ignoring anything not webkit on mobile). Switching to Blink will give them more resources to pump into UX.
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This could be a US thing but you should avoid giving a why you reject a candidate because you are opening yourself up to litigation.

All companies big enough to have a policy on this have a "I'm afraid we don't have a position to offer you at this time" -kind of stock reply for this reason.

If there's any follow-up at all its purpose will be to leave the candidate with a good impression, not to give the candidate any actual information.

I've even known companies to say "I'm sorry, we don't discuss specific cases" and post a t-shirt to candidates who ask why.
Has anyone ever thought that Hackathons are teaching kids how to code as well as how to get burn out?
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All of the big players have already gotten similar consent decrees. Twitter got one over a password leak. Google got one over Buzz. Microsoft got one over Passport/Wallet (though that has perhaps expired). Facebook got one over Beacon.

Everyone gets one sooner or later, it seems. It's a giant PITA, but everyone has the audit infrastructure in place by now, so I wouldn't expect it to matter too much.
Dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/

In Firefox 20.0.1, with Javascript disabled, after the login the home listing has a "The Dropbox website require JavaScript" text.

[EDIT: Clickable, more info]
I have to check again, last time I called my lawyer, the tax on my income was 14% and the tax on an share sale would have been 42%, so I'm really in favor of having both at the same rate.
That is swell and everything. But why doesn't the president fix his crazy tax scheme, first. The pigeons have already left the roost and now he's set his aim further down the tax bracket.

Apologies, I just received a letter saying I owe the impots an additional 400€. For reasons I can't imagine since my salary hasn't appreciated that much. Entrepreneurship is hard enough already, the government taking more money doesn't make it any easier no matter how many visas they grant.
> And in the end, the author trots out the 75K figure and pretty much agrees with it. The income redistribution statement is odd but further proof: taxing the rich (above 64K) and "giving" it to the those below 64K would have the biggest happinss effect.

Only if the taxation and re-distribution wouldn't have big feedback effects.
If your money doesn't buy you happiness, you are spending it wrong.

True, but not everyone, or even everyone with plenty of money, has the opportunity to spend it rightly.
I have to say it's a really nice design and the game is fun, but it's not really smooth on my iPhone 4, it's a little laggy whenever an animation starts.
This is still very impressive for an HTML5 game though.
Ars Technica wants to be Wired :-(

Please leave the poor, sensationalised writing to Wired and stick to the short news stories we know and love.
75% tax rate. He is a sociallist big time. He hates free market economy. Now confronting public outrage he puts some lipstick on a pig and it still doesn't look good as he doesn't get the markets.

75% tax rate, who is he kidding? Who wants to work for free for years on their startup and sacrifice their savings, their social life, sometimes their family, just to be hit by 75% tax at the end of the journey?

No thank you Hollande, but no thank you.
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Yup.

But to push my own biased opinion, I've often found that people who have positive attitudes, despite adversity, often do better in life-- both in happiness and relationships and career success.
I'd like to know your sources, and wear your rosy glasses. As a French student, I'll leave the country at the first occasion. We are heading into a big, thick wall and we'll lose more than the pigeons when we go bankrupt.
In the way whereby nobody ever complains about usability issues like this one.
I am pretty sure that the negative PR that this lawsuit will bring more damaging to Opera than any trade secrets.
Maybe, but I'm not so sure. Why do you believe that ? (Examples, or whatever)
I didn't know "command line terminal" equals "bash or zsh"!

Of course I'm talking ecosystem here.
No. MS-DOS programs won't run on Windows. CMD isn't DOS.

You need something like FreeDOS or DOSbox to run the old DOS programs these days.
It's a question of balance, if people want to see more new businesses to come around then it makes a lot of sense to lower the entry barrier.
Well we're UK based and the fear of litigation is certainly a lot smaller. Obviously there is always a concern that a candidate will have a significantly negative reaction to a rejection but I spend a lot of time with all candidates who go through our interview process and build up a lot of rapport with them so I like to hope that they don't take the feedback personally.
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What kind of correct inference could possibly be drawn? The data is arbitrarily scaled to begin with. By criticizing the interpretation of the log graph, it seems to me you've implicitly accepted that the authors' quantification of happiness is a meaningful measure, that it makes sense to say that one level of happiness is twice as much as another and that asking someone to imagine a ladder can establish that.

Tucked away in a footnote in the paper: "We should add a caveat, that this inference of 'diminishing marginal well-being' requires taking a stronger stand on the appropriate cardinalization of subjective well-being (Oswald 2008)." You say caveat, I say giant ontological turd hitting the fan...
"If you have an x86 machine without an operating system on it, is it a computer"
No, it's a pile of iron and silicon.

"Is an iOS device not a computer because it doesn't have a CLI?"
Not after you buy it, you have to turn it into a computer.

"What about a hypothetical computer that uses your brain as input - would that have a CLI?"
It sure will, how else will you use it?

It's not pedantism. Pedantism is about meaning of words. My rant is about meaning of concepts. If you hit nails with your microscope, it's not a microscope for you but rather a lame hammer.
I'm not new here.

That, however, is taking nostalgia far beyond any sense of probity. It definitely ain't what it used to be.
Shoe: http://imgessence.com/browse/view/114

Face: http://imgessence.com/browse/view/29

Spirit: http://imgessence.com/browse/view/510

It works best on symmetric, concrete objects.

http://imgessence.com/browse
"Oh no! Server Error: 500 (Internal Server Error)"

This is the problem with services this fun to play with. Here at HN we break our toys!
To me, the most important thing is that he's closing the "040" indicator used by the banks to index the entrepreneurs who previously failed.

It's virtually impossible to get help from a bank if your previous startup has failed. There's a bigger picture here. France is so incredibly intolerant of failure it's not funny. There's the rampant myth of the "genius superstar that never fails" and you only get one chance to prove yourself. It's no surprise that people will (generally, there are exceptions) prefer steady and safe employment in big corporations.

I think the best thing we can do for entrepreneurs is to encourage people to take risks and fail a few times. But this needs a major overhaul of the mentality in the country. I'm glad to see the government is taking a first step.
I believe there is something somehow similar in the US where a founder gets a 100% exclusion from tax (up to $10M per taxpayer) for “qualified small business stock” held for more than 5 years. I think this is still the case.
The last time this came up I had a good time looking at the source for these early pages. A lot of HTML tags have disappeared or changed, and standards were far looser back then.

For instance, on the index page, http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html, there's a <HEADER> instead of <HEAD>, and on the other pages it's missing altogether. Each A HREF has a incrementing index (the purpose of which I'm unclear of...).

It's also interesting to dive into some of the early mailing list discussions, such as the early implementations of embedding images - competing implementations were the "img" tag we know today, an "icon" tag, and other suggested a generic "object" or "embed" that would have been extensible. edit: Just remembered that one proposal was overriding the A HREF tag with a TYPE attribute that could be set to an image.

I'm surprised some of these still work, such as LISTING: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Test/test.html
This is a really cool project, good job!

Spoon is an interesting example : http://imgessence.com/browse/view/190 - You can see the many basic outlines of a 'spoony' shape. However, all of those images of spoon are presenting the object rotated at some more or less random angles. It would be interesting to add some algorithm that would try to match the images (rotate / scale) to the average and hence give less noisy output.
> An ideal game would be hard enough for everyone, yet everyone would be able to beat it.

That seems to hold very little replayability value. A better prospect is to make the game just a little more difficult that the current player's skill level, and adapt to that, so the game gets progressively more difficult as the player's skill improves, and the rewards/achievements are in line with that path. (It's quite a oft-given piece of advice for players wanting to get better at chess, that they play people a little stronger than themselves, and they gradually adapt and start winning more than losing)

I guess that's what's changed in gaming since the eighties. Back then the challenge and difficulty of games was a feature. Only a small crop of people completed them, the rest of us enjoyed the challenge of trying to get there. Where the journey to improvement is of more value than reaching the credits at the end.
True, I would not buy anything which is DRM-protected unless I knew how to remove the DRM restrictions. I buy quite a few Kindle books, but only because it's easy to remove their restrictions. I don't share the DRM-free books over the internet, but I still keep a copy of each book which does not suffer from present or future seller restrictions.
WebFWD is an awesome experience! It's helping us turn mist.io into a solid business with a great product, without having to give away any equity. The mentors are top notch and very engaged in the whole process. Being a part of the Mozilla community is the best thing ever. If you're working on an open source startup, complete the short application form now! It's totally worth it.
Astronomers' jargon is very interesting. Anything besides hydrogen is a metal, being within an order of magnitude pretty much signifies equality, and two similar observations are sometimes held as conclusive!
pot.kettle.black
Gestures are of debatable utility of course, I often find some of them useful. There are only two problems: 1) not discoverable and 2) overlap with system gestures. The latter is particularly annoying when websites do it.

The part I have a problem with is the wildly different-looking and different-functioning buttons, lists, menus and so on. If they had exercised some restraint and only applied a minimal colour-only theme, I could figure out what their UI does after just looking at it.
How does a startup with no revenue expect to pay an $800k debt?
Ah that was not Liberation, but inrocks instead... but I may have read something similar in the Liberation since they are so very much in the same line of thought: http://www.lesinrocks.com/2010/09/26/actualite/ils-ont-decid...

For English speakers out there, the title means "they decided not to work anymore"

That's what you get for giving out welfare without setting any expectations to the person who gets it: people abusing the system.
Not feeding the troll, but the average tax for a company is ~36%.

75% is the income tax when you are very rich. (And it's still a project). now, the income tax is 50% for the rich people.
So, just pull and average. No attempt to align, no attempt to decompose, no attempt at PCA, no processing at all. Just pull and average.

I'm struggling to see why this is interesting.

Added in edit: Rather than just downvoting, perhaps you could tell my why this is interesting. Were there technical challenges to overcome? If so - what? What did the implementor learn by doing this? What are you learning by using it? Please - help me to see why this is at all interesting! I genuinely don't understand.
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There's an unfortunate mix there of some interesting/troubling facts, and seemingly cherry-picked local news stories. It's decent yellow journalism though.
I'd rather see targeted ads than non-targeted ads
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I skimmed some docs, and I can't find the list of operation that can be done with that. Is it numerical stuff like addition/multiplication? Is it text editing?
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GPL? That doesn't encourage too many uses of this code.
Especially for commercial purposes.
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It's interesting to see the availability of firearms to citizens presented as a violation of human rights.

>Firearms-related crimes posed serious threat to the lives and personal security of citizens in the U.S. Some shootings left astonishing casualties, such as the school shooting in Oakland, the Century 16 theater shooting in Colorado and the school shooting in Connecticut.

Also, please be aware that this is a translation, which explains for the awkward and sometimes grammatically incorrect wording of this article.
Of course, it's a minority. I prefer to add this information for all the readers.
The same way it's paying for everything else - out of VC money.
Of course that only applies to the salary over one million. As people earning that much usually have plenty of options to get their money through different channels, this is purely political posturing. They didn't even significantly increase tax revenue.

I agree that it is ridiculous but, in a similar way, it is ridiculous to claim that one rate makes France unfriendly for business.
Wow... It's reading articles like this that makes me very pleased that I decided to decline an offer to move to the USA a couple of years back.

"Personal brand"? Thank you letters to recruiters? "Thank you for your guidance and support"...

I can't be the only British person to read this article and feel a little bit sickened by the cloying falseness of the language used here, it's one of the main reasons why I no longer consider job offers from big US companies - I like to work with people who tell me what they think, not what they think I want to hear.

Apologies for this sounding like an anti-American rant, I don't mean it in that way, but there is something very wrong with the false-friendly, euphemistic speech used by a lot of people and organisations over that side of the pond. I think a lot of it is really just "please-don't-sue-me" speech.
There are surely more Frenchmen settling in China right now than Chinese or Indians wanting to come and set up a business in France. I have no idea where you get impression it works the other way around.
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It's a good thing we have that new perspective.

Here in Spain there is no independent press at all. You have the "left" press and the "right" press. Each one talks wonders about their preferred party and throws shit at the others. So you have look into the "left" press to know extensively about the shit from the right party, and vice versa. Similarly, the best perspective about what's wrong with the US is found on non US-friendly press, even if it sounds hypocritical to denounce human rights violations from China.

However, press in the US is likely to be much more independent and self-critical than in China (you WILL find self-critical press in the US but not in China, after all).
There is no 75% tax rate.
But the USPS offers tracking as well...
Holomorphic encryption is a very interesting concept especially in a cloud setting. One could perform some operations on encrypted client data. But I don't know if it's mature enough.
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Well that's still far high enough even at 36%. There are several places more business-friendly around the world.
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We were building clusters of PCs in the 1980's using arcnet. Those were pretty large and complex systems, they used a very elegant message passing protocol. And that definitely wasn't the only game in town for large and complex systems (but it was one of the most productive ways of constructing those systems with a small team).
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