skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Do you trust BitTorrent to properly encrypt your data as they promise? To not send it to someone else on the sly?"

I've currently got BTSync dealing with a bunch of "non-private" data, and EncFS (and BoxCryptor on OS X) encrypting the more private data I'm syncing with BTSync.

I'm still "trusting" the BTSync app not to mess with my machine(s) in unexpected ways - but I have to trust every application I run to do that, Photoshop or Firefox are just as capable of "sending my data so someone else on the sly".

One thing I'm realy liking about the BTSync/EncFS setup is that I can have machines I consider "less trustworthy" to sync/store EncFS encrypted data without having EncFS/BoxCryptor installed or needing the keys. I'm happy enough for a spare machine at work, where other people might have physical access to it, to store EncFS encrypted blobs for me. I'm confident enough that's secured against pretty much everything up to federal law enforcement or nation state level snooping.
Well, it doesn't matter whether they are turning blind eye or not. America's politics in not in people's hands, but in politician's hands that serve bigger cause (read: serve Military Industrial Complex).

The sad part is, is that not much is gonna change. There is STILL too much money to make off of war, and in case too many civilians stand up, you can always setup another 911, plane bombing (shoe-bomber), another stage shooting, etc, and it will shut everyone up, and open their wallets to even more money being given to MIC.

Its a really sad and disappointing situation.
Most likely, Five Guys would have refused your offer because their lawyers wouldn't want to deal with the inevitable lawsuits from Red Robin. That's not to say that other, smaller players might not have taken the risk. But good on ya for making The Right Choice. :)
The plan is to donate the money if they can't buy the video(and it looks likely they won't be able to buy the video) so yes that's what I was asking.
Ah. you meant the exclusive OS for the space station. I was thinking far more broadly. :)
That seems odd, I can't find anything explaining why such an age limit is in place. I am assuming that there is some reason for it.

I know that the military often has an upper age limit due to fitness requirements.
The Stanford Delusion
For the longest time I thought that Stanford was where I wanted to go, but after getting rejected and going to check out other colleges, I realized that Stanford wasn't what I really wanted. This is my personal reflection on my struggle with the college admissions process and my emergence from "The Stanford Delusion".
The most confusing thing to me about this page was the changing provider names. I was looking at the page and could tell that something was changing but it took me about 15 seconds to figure out what it was.
For the longest time I thought that Stanford was where I wanted to go, but after getting rejected and going to check out other colleges, I realized that Stanford wasn't what I really wanted. This is my personal reflection on my struggle with the college admissions process and my emergence from "The Stanford Delusion".
Agreed, plus we also have a better word than compile for source-to-source compilation at the same conceptual level of abstraction above the machine: transpile.
Not only this, but the laptop was a guaranteed increase in earnings being that it was the tool you needed to get the job done, were the stock could have plummeted. These comparisons while crazy to think about, are rather pointless.
Your description of SV startup culture isn't unique - it seems to be pretty much SOP for virtually any company these days. Lose your job after 50 and finding an equivalent position can be daunting.

>I suppose SV companies are going to tend to solve young adult problems because they are composed of young adults. It's what they know.

It's not only what they know, it's what they think is cool as well. And that's okay - I think a lot of the software I look at today is cool, too. But is it useful to me? Nope.

I'm no student of business, but it does seem to me that historically an awful lot of companies have been started by young people who saw a market or niche that needed to be filled, and filled it. How hard would it be for a start-up (or existing tech company) to get a couple of panels of 50-80 year olds together and find out what they'd find useful, and then produce it? You can make the argument that 20-somethings have more disposable income, but I doubt a couple dollar smartphone app or ten buck piece of desktop software is going to break any senior citizen's budget.
Standing all the time isn't healthy either, but one thing standing desks promote better is taking breaks more often. I'm more willing to walk around and stretch if I'm already standing, than if I'm sitting.

I've been using a GeekDesk for 2 years now. I recently purchased a LifeSpan Treadmill (just the base) for my standing desk as the next step, and really like it. Careful though, you can't go from sitting to treadmill, it's too much body shock, you'll need to ease into standing for a few months first.
Article: "What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup"

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/01/31/what-the-rails-security-...
I wish this existed before. For node.js stacks that support connect/express based middleware, we wrote oauth-flow instead

https://github.com/doxout/node-oauth-flow

The idea is to point the user to your oauth-flow route and they will complete the oauth flow. your middleware will then be called with req.oauth containing all received oauth credentials and the url containing all the original parameters.
I solved this problem with a $35 raspberrypi and a 2TB external USB disk that I tucked away in a closet at home. It takes very little power so I can leave it on all the time. The btsync command line version for ARM has worked well for me so far.
You're taking your own opinions and applying them to the entire target market. Just because you feel this way doesn't mean that everyone else does, and it certainly doesn't imply that "updating the site wouldn't make a dent".
Hah.. I actually read this comment first and I was STILL just staring at my screen completely dumfounded. I'd see the little animation on the right update, and then something else would change. It was mystifying.
I think it's the result of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5637453
To be more accurate, SHA-224, SHA-512/384, and SHA-512/256 don't suffer from length extension attacks. The rest of the SHA2 family (256 and 512) do. Of course, SHA-256 and SHA-512 are more popular than their truncated variants...
AeroFS's showstopper for me was no support for 32bit machines - my largest collection of storage is an old Mac Mini with half a dozen large usb drives plugged in, but AeroFS wont run on it. (and the single core Mac Mini can't be upgraded to a version of OS X that'll run 64bit java).
Does peer review count as a feature?
This sounds very like Stanley Green (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Green)a very well known english eccentric who used to walk up and down oxford street with a sandwich board that read “Less Lust, By Less Protein: Meat Fish Bird; Egg Cheese; Peas Beans; Nuts. And Sitting,"

I believe one of his thesis was that to much sitting led to horrors like the Rolling stones and the whole permissive 60’s

He was a well known sight to any one who worked in central London pre 1993 when he died.
Hang on a minute. What's the difference between spam and an ad, anyway? It's all spam, surely.
This is incorrect. The conversion rate does not affect your quality score: http://adwordsagency.blogspot.com/2008/12/quality-score-fact...

A "conversion" means different things to different companies. It would be extremely easy to game the system if conversion rate affected quality score.
The Replicator has Arrived:  NASA's 3-D food printer for astronauts
So Google gets hammered in several jurisdictions by driving a car with cameras around and now they are planning a blimp? I'm sure an intermediate cell network in disaster zones but full time RF surveillance? Why would a country agree to that?
Crate is currently an experiment of mine into what a better package system would look like.

It can be used as a drop in replacement against PyPI using the --index-url option of pip. (pip install --index-url=https://simple.crate.io/)

It has a number of security and speed improvements over PyPI some of which I've contributed back to or pushed for PyPI to get overtime.
The little comic programmer guy is hilarious. And actually, as someone who's fooling around with oauth right now, this looks very appealing.

But yeah, the changing provider names might not be a good idea. Or at least decrease the interval.
Or lying on a couch. All studies compare sitting with walking. How about sitting vs standing? Or sitting vs lying? When I work, I prefer to lie on a couch rather than sit at a desk. And I am not kidding - I am more productive that way.
For that matter, most queries work nicely if you avoid null attributes altogether, and stick to (LEFT INNER) JOIN, WHERE ... IN, UNION, INTERSECT and EXCEPT.
It uses the XMLRPC API to pick up new packages. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPIXmlRpc
The XBone and the cloud
I wish there was more there than a mailing list signup and a teaser. What is it you're actually showing HN? Some animations?
But who else to tell us about the horrors is drug addiction than someone who's been there? </sarcasm>
More like the blogging community. The reason WP is so popular now is because MovableType stopped being free like 7 or 8 years ago.

Bloggers left in droves to the only other platform anywhere close to capable enough to handle their needs.

Now a whole lot of people who made money from blogging and therefore had money to spend created a market for developers to learn how to use WP.

The premium themes market, as controversial as it was when it first emerged, further drove investment of time in learning the system and building plugins.

Then, because people wanted to maximise their financial return from their initial investment, WP began to be used for all sorts of shit like as a CMS and eCommerce platform, for membership sites, you name it.

The cycle now feeds into itself: there is a huge market which attracts developers who in turn make WP a safe choice for webmasters who know they need a well supported platform, in turn contributing to increase in market size.

The most interesting thing about it all is that, despite it being such a monstrosity in it's implementation, from a user perspective it's a pretty good system - proof that with enough time and manpower one can, indeed, polish a turd.
I find that it makes Toronto more interesting. A mayor smoking crack? It doesn't get better than that, and it was about time someone turned it up a notch--having multiple mistresses is for the rookies. This guy knows how to party and I would expect him to be reelected :D.

Plus from what I can tell he wasn't busting crackheads left and right while doing the drug himself. That gets more respect than uh, let's say a guy busting prostitution rings while banging prostitutes himself lol.
Similes are a subset of metaphors, anyways.
Working with PyPI tends to make for an angry time.
Great read, but can I say that I don't link the font you've got. The letter 'f' doesn't properly display and looks more like an upside down J.

Not sure if I am the only one...
My favorite part about this link is that all the comments on HN are almost exclusively one line long. I read all 12 in about 30 seconds.
On first glance, I'd say somewhere around $500-700 per month.
My understanding is walking rather than than driving for instance is NOT a solution to this specific issue (It's great for other reasons).

It is in part, as in you might sit for 13 hours a day so 30 mins less sitting makes you 3% better off but really it's not the solution. Similarly to getting up and walking around, if you do it 5 mins ever hour that's 4% better off.

My understanding is these studies are saying to make change you need to stop sitting for large periods of time (ie reduce by 50+%), if you don't want to die/become crippled early.
I do really look forward to the millennial generation's first batch of politicians. That will be a hoot, bongs everywhere.

Really though there will be enough dirt on everyone for it to not really matter anymore.
Coinbase Leads Charge In Bitcoin’s Consumerization
If you are going to trust BoxCryptor you can as well trust BTSync directly.
Light-beam 'twins' take data farther
Thanks. These are straight crypto frameworks which are a good start.
> I bet they'll resemble. . . Wordpress.

Are we still talking about actual code here? Because if so, I'll take that bet.
After researching the issue deeper, apparently there are exceptions to the time-and-a-half regulation, and programmers are an exception. I'm not sure why you're specifically mentioning the word salary though.
the only way to change a country like Afghanistan is to stop sending millions over there in cash from international drug money. The war on drugs helped fund this situation. And doesn't seem to be helping to bring a resolution yet at great cost to them and us.

The drug trade is a big problem in Afghanistan, but isn't the root cause of the problems there (Indeed, since it's pretty close to the only functioning export industry it may well be a good thing for the farmers).

No-one has ever successfully imposed any system of government on Afghanistan. That reflects deeper causes than the war on drugs.
This is exactly the opposite of the music industry, which has been turning metal into fake rock for years.
I think the best analogue I have for this piece is that of an athlete who obe hand wants to compete and play, but on the other hand must take his time to rest between workouts and competition to re-build his energy and at the end if the day be able to better perform or in this case solve complex problems by coding. I also gave to day that the title of the post is really beutiful.
Awesome to hear! Congrats to Brian and Fred
That makes sense in terms of no standard libraries. But how about design patterns for common scenarios, eg. securing REST apis, User authentication/Login/Signup, Payment information handling etc, all in one place.

Does it become less secure if everyone follows standard design patterns?
Just wanted to say thanks for such an insightful, nuanced response.
I just opened a coworking space a couple of months ago. It used to be an auto shop, so we tried to maintain that feel. My favorite part is the old hydraulic lift that we converted into a standing height desk.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/579181_296764684...
There are major wins for client-side templating in general, but I don't quite see the market for pure-js templates.

HTML templates buy you:

- Access to HTML/XML parsers (syntax highlighters, validators, transformers, linters, etc.)

- Readability by non-technical designers.

- Readability by Google, bing, et al.

- Separation of concern.

Pure Javascript is pretty much a terrible language to write templates in, for the simple reason that writing long strings is a pain in the ass. AngularJS does client-side templating The Right Way as far as I'm concerned.

Disclaimer: I'm a Google engineer who uses Angular.
I never claimed that things don't change...just that the rate of change is pretty slow by comparison to software.

Look at your examples: in the first, you're talking about the difference between laying down and...not laying down. And how long have people been giving birth in hospitals?

In the second example, you're discussing a subtle difference in the age at which kids are fed a specific food.

Medicine moves slowly and deliberately. Software does not.
> there is an increasing shift to minimalist blogging stacks

I regret that this is bubble talk. If you think non-software types are going to publish blog posts at a command line, I don't know what else to say.
Ask HN: Best resources for international taxes / incorporation set up?
Hello,

I am in the fortunate position of being a consultant for a company that lets me work from any country in the world, and they will deposit my consulting fees into any bank account. It's up to me to pay taxes, etc.

Until now I haven't been earning enough to create some complicated set up, so I just deposit my fees into a local bank account and pay taxes as if it was normal income (which it is with this set up)... but in the next tax year I will be earning considerably more, and need advice on where to go to for this kind of advice. I'm hesitant to call an account and ask them how I can avoid paying $100,000 in taxes as a temporary resident in a country I didn't grow up in.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
You can put a suprising amount of holes in a low pressure blimp/zeppelin before it becomes a problem. Unlike party balloons, they don't "pop". Armoring them against the occasional small arms fire is probably not worth it (the extra weight would probably cause more overall loss of buoyancy than the occasional hole.)
I'm not comparing the difference to zero. Note my convoluted phrasing which I wrote specifically to forestall your objection:

> you've made a marginal $55,000 a year since 2009 which you would not have made with any cheaper laptop?

Of course I don't think he actually has, and that he would have gained pretty much whatever he has gained with a much-cheaper-than-$3k-laptop.
"Try to find a police chief who doesn't fuck young boys."

Ouch.
yes it's maybe more a kind of ASK HN if this API could interest people as we are finalizing it
To most physicists, a metal is something that conducts electricity AND gets more conductive as it gets colder. The second condition is important to distinguish metals from insulators and semiconductors. (This is a good, but not perfect, definition.)
I've been managing a series of wordpress sites for about 9 years now. Since 1.2 or 1.3, I think.

In terms of keeping the thing running, it has not been a pleasant experience.
A plea to people making April Fools' projects
If they would actually be feasible to make, please make them. I get pretty disappointed sometimes that these jokes don't actually exist.
It does seen to be a frightening sort if prophecy.. Growing up kids are bound to make mistakes, as its an intrinsic part of growing up, but as Schmidt rightly points out these can now be recorded for all time. One positive thing about this nay be that everyone makes mistakes (and everyone does) than maybe in the future it would be less of a big deal, and people having adjusted themselves to this new normal will more forgiving or at least less judgemental.
3 watts of energy coming out of an LED is insane. To have all that concentrated in a laser beam is truly something else.
Top startup spoofs
Tapping Into an 'Entrepreneurial Ecosystem'
I decreased the interval to 10s.
Thanks for the read Cam. Being 17/18 is tough. Your dad sounds like a wise man. You sound like a stubborn and thoughtful kid. You'll do well.

CalPoly is great school. Make sure you take courses from Staley (tough but good). Use the Pass/Fail option liberally. Do the ACM Programming Contest.

Lastly, Disneyland has a weird enjoyment curve. Sometime around your age it lost its appeal. But by my late 30s it became one of my favorite vacation spots. And now with kids I love it again. Something about going to Disneyland with your parents on your 18th birthday was touching to me.
I read that part of the story to mean that people were tweeting nonsense about who won the next election, not that Obama was actually running.
I'm inclined to disagree with this comment: The OP is simply saying that they have a developed skill-set and expertise with Java. This goes a very long way about saying who they are. I can assume they have good working knowledge of the Java language in addition to some great tool sets. Lastly having a specialty is never a bad thing.
They were very well done, and I loved the course overall, so congrats. I like how Dan knows how to preemptively answer every question I had.
Hmm, nobody has tried using Brainfuck yet...
Not by far. The Romans would kill a large portion of a rebellious city/village (or all) and the rest would be shipped away as slaves. You wouldn't want to mess with them.

The Taliban is part of the local population. They will definitely intimidate, kill, terrorize but it's not the same.

EDIT: Just to be clear... I'm not proposing the US behave like the Romans used to. If anything, given the limitations it should have been more careful in the way it applies force.
Does it do time trabel? <giggle>

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\DARWIN.TXT

nera or families, have really started into life at once, the
fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection.
For the development by this means of a group of forms, all of which are
descended from some one progenitor, must have been an extremely slow
process; and the progenitors must have lived long before their modified
descendants. But we continually overrate the perfection of the geological
record, and falsely infer, because certain genera or families have not been
foun

----

eh.

I get pissed when I don't get credit, sometimes.

Jesus said unsung was ... you get more reward. Whoa? (God's laughing)

God says...
harmony pear torment ascending fail -to huh excused shoulder
briars waking
Because rails people don't know markdown. In all seriousness I'm assuming that those guys are panicking right about now and can't type fast enough let alone worry about the slightest bit of code formatting.
I'm not fan of the codebase, but until something else comes along that's as easy for my clients to learn/use - I'm going to keep on recommending and installing WordPress for them.

Anybody who's used a word processor can pick up most of what they need to know to work as an author or editor in WordPress in a afternoon. I'm not about to recreate all the widely available documentation and tutorials WordPress has available - or explain to my clients "all you need to do is write all your website content in MarkDown, then run this Ruby script from the command line to publish it to S3/CloudFront!"
What would have happened if you did not create your side project?
Price is steep on these, presumably due to the motors. Is there a similar desk that you can elevate with a simple hydraulic foot pedal? Kind of like the chairs at a hair salon.
One of the major problems that occupying forces have had in Afghanistan is that modern military strategy fundamentally isn't designed for taking and holding ground. Outside of the bases in Afghanistan, there is not one square meter of ground that is "owned" by the coalition.

That is almost 100% false. For example, read the on-the-ground account in Junger's book War (and the related documentary Resprepo).

The whole aim of the Restrepo outpost was to control entry to the Korengal Valley, and take and hold control of the ground.

It kind of worked for a short period of time, but ultimately failed.

Nevertheless, the strategy was to gain control of the ground, then hand control over to local Afghan forces. There were some fairly significant failures in implementing that strategy though - not least that the government put in place to replace the Taliban was notably worse in many respects for the local population.
Interesting. It would be a bit more legitimate of if the difference was between standing and sitting bus drivers (assuming there was some way to stand and drive a bus).

Or, straight to the point, if there was a study involving standing programmer and sitting programmers... preferably one in which the roles were randomized, because I'd suspect that programmers who've already chosen to stand while they work are probably a more health-conscious lot as it is.