skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a world where the US government is scanning all your electronic communications, and (we'll next discover) searching your OS X- and Windows-based computers at will, how do you, as a practical matter, keep your private key "private"?
Let's see, carry the N, divide by P and "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"
Firefox supports smartcards. I actually like it better than IE, though it was difficult to make the initial setup happen.
$200 - if I am getting groceries for 100 users (and making $5 per order), it should be good.
The problem may or may not be transient. Let's examine the cost of making a mistake in each case.

If it's not transient, beating the drums of "no culture of dependence!" will send billions of people to starvation.

If the problem is transient, culture of dependence could indeed undermine further progress, or more likely cause progress to slow down as fewer people will be pushing the envelope.

Which mistake seems worse to you?
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.htm...

s/George R. R. Martin/Mozilla/g
Don't be so quick to assume. You have a fully built out profile, but...

- what do you mention in your profile?

- how many photos do you have?

- what are the photos of?

- how many "friends" do you have?

- have you been vouched for?

- how many reviews do you have?

- do you have any neutral or negative reviews?

- what do the reviews say?

- what does your personal surfing message say (the one you send out to potential hosts)?

- how long have you been a member for?

- have you verified yourself?

and so on.

Most people are also less likely to host someone if it's very short notice.
yeah, I was wondering about how strong GPG was. Back in the day, i.e. the 90's, the assumption was it would take years for then-current NSA supercomputers to factor the keys. Nowadays, with all sorts of new attacks, analyses, and cheap as hell compute time, I would wager that time requirement has gone significantly down.
The actual rule is http://www.irs.gov/irm/part7/irm_07-025-004.html#d0e332
The IRS scandal is a scandal. The only question is whether or not the White House is involved or just the IRS.
Until there is One World government, these issues will be resolved by vigilance, treaty, or war.
Obviously, hide it in the "garbage file". Even Angelina Jolie knows this!
The fine art of changing minds
Please read about Basic Income Guarantees(BIG)[1-2], if you are unfamiliar. Essentially, it is a set amount of money for EVERY citizen with NO means testing. It has been promulgated by conservative and liberal Nobel laureates alike. It turns out that the limited, preliminary data shows it to be INCREDIBLY effective. Basic Income offers surprising, non-intuitive effects which -- sometimes -- strongly contradict derogatory stereotypes of the poor. For example, BIG has resulted in increased hours worked per week and wage. These increases were attributed to people finding jobs they liked more and were better at (in lieu of jobs-based means testing programs which incentivize getting crappiest job possible as soon as possible).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5656249
The offender wrote a wonderful apology/explanation. Straight and to the point. Little BS.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130429232420/http://www.solidgo...
It was on the Roku's PBS channel. It's called "The Archive" under "PBS Online Film Festival".
This looks promising. Thank you!
On the other hand, perhaps it's entirely possible that creators of technology will notice this large swath of available labor and create technology to make use of it.

An important point about the Luddites is that while expensive weavers were put out of work by machines, those machines functioned by employing greater numbers of (vastly lower paid) unskilled immigrants.

If you put a 150k salary expert out of work by creating a piece of technology that requires two 70k workers, you still profit.
When websites do it well I love it! They can pick the most important links for me and put them in the nav so they're always available without me having to scroll around.
So in the first line, it has 1 and then checking to see if it's equal bumps it to 2 allocs, and finally the third call, to begin releasing, brings it to 3 (then removal of all 3)?

That's super weird - I have yet to encounter something along these lines in my Cocoa work so far. Solid idea to beat the system there. I just hope it's got a nice comment above it haha.
Sure, it can be pretty miserable to work on your car if you don't have a warm, dry, reasonably secure place to do it.
Ask HN: Cassandra for Log Management
I'm looking at use Cassandra to store and index logs, particular those based around security events source from syslog and custom agents.

Anyone gone down this path and found Cassandra to be the wrong tool for the job? It's replication is really the attractive item for me.
huh. so my circle of friends is a little different; Many of them could make garage door opener; heck, many of them could make a garage door opener that was far more secure than your average house lock. Of course, I live in a fairly urban area, and almost none of these people have an actual garage to open.

How much actual work gets done? that usually depends on the personal employment situation. Both, "do I have enough work" and "how hard is the boss pressuring me to work more" - from what I've seen it's more about how much free time is available than any calculation of how much they get paid per hour. (I mean, I usually do the "how much could I be making during this hour" calculation, but I'm a /lot/ more comfortable hiring people than most of my friends.)

If anything, I think the bias is too much towards 'I will do it myself' where I am, I've seen solder/heatshrink repairs on products that literally cost $5. I mean, done by fully-employed folks. I've got prime, I'll order you another.

Considering how many of these folks are introverts, I think there is a huge untapped market for someone to buy one of those self-storage places and add outlets. Especially if it was open 24/7? man, that would be really popular with my crowd. The problem with hackerspaces is that first, they are social (which is good for other things, but not for introvert work space) and second, that you generally have little to no storage space, and certainly can't leave your project on the workbench while you have a busy week at work.

On the subject of Grandpa fixing things, my favorite grandpa quote is "Always test a wire like this" (holds hand with palm inwards, two fingers out) "and never like this" (pretends to grab wire with both left and right hands outstretched)
Because you can't tell if a patent might cover software or not when you grant it, in the way that the patent law is currently applied under the influence of WIPO.
Yes, but in that case you jusr lose the intrest of 4 months on your money which is close to nothing and not something to worry about.
It's equally arguable that people won't engage in time-consuming activities of uncertain return if there's too much financial risk. 'Lack of demand' is often a stumbling block for new technologies that are ahead of their time.
Um... get Lasik.

(im kidding)
Counterpoint: one thing that history's greatest designers have most certainly not done is pay a lot of attention to the public's immediate reaction.

It will make them look worse, in a way, if we see them making a lot of concessions to popular outrage. The core look and feel of the UI was something they really should have taken the time to get right the first time, before going public. It's hard to save face in this business.
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I'd Tivoize it and have a developer switch like Chromebooks. It goes without saying that switching modes must wipe the device.
Really? When have we seen Apple change its game like that before?

Don't like Mission Control? Too bad, get used to it. Want Google Maps back after Apple pushed their maps too soon? Sorry, your stuck with Apple maps. Bad cell reception? You're just holding your phone wrong.

There are many examples like this. I've seen many people say something along the lines of, "oh don't worry, this is just beta, it will all be better when it is released." It may, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
All inventions are built on those that came before them. How much iteration defines a new invention?
When will international shipping be supported? Australia in particular.
I'm really glad to hear someone talk about the development/debug advantages of static typing. I work in a mixed java/ruby/python shop and issues with typing come up all the time. We catch so many bugs during java compilation that we can't see in ruby/python.

Sure, if you've got great test coverage, you get that with test automation. But I can't tell you how many refactors with "reasonable" (< 100%) test coverage went flawlessly in java with just a compile/fix-compilation-errors loop. I think this is much easier than a run-tests/fix-bugs approach with a type-free language. This is especially true when you've got maturing code and lots of ownership hand-offs.

Any tips on static analysis for ruby/python out there for a curmudgeonly java dev?
Sorry -- the drivers are meant to be used in a way where you create a new connection in each thread. If you do it this way, things will work.
You don't deserve to live in a free country.
Sticking nuts and bolts are the perfect meditation.

Pedant alert: consider a beefy breaker bar or a torque wrench for that mechanical advantage. A pipe slipped on the end of a wrench has a habit of slipping off or breaking the wrench, and possibly causing injury to mechanism, mechanic, etc.

But yeah, I'm with ya. It's amazing the satisfaction we get from doing stuff ourselves and from the "working smarter" stuff our elders can teach us, if we'll only slow down, ask, and listen with care.
50% of fortune 500 uses WIndows Azure?
slava @ rethink here. I would love to get a windows port (if only because it will give us the option to use Visual Studio's debugger). Unfortunately it's a rather non-trivial undertaking. I'd like to get this done some time within a year, but I can't make any promises.
PSA: If you're not a developer, don't install developer betas on your iPhone
I love that trick. I often try to type more, but since "USA", "U.S.A." and "United States" are all different it often ends up backfiring. It's eally minor in the grand-scheme of things, but it often makes me feel unlucky for guessing incorrectly!
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Can the phone be made to receive while "powered off" -- even sporadically?

They wouldn't want to tip their hand re:transmission capabilities. They'd probably only activate the capability on-demand, and only for high-value targets (ie. by sending a special packet to be received by the "powered off" handset). It's sorta like turning your phone into a listening "bug" while powered on... you wouldn't want to constantly stream data and tip your hand -- you'd only activate the capability when there is a strong likelihood of a valuable conversation occurring.
He should stick to reddit this is HN - a somewhat different community where decent and concise answers are held higher than "smart" sarcasm...
We generally try to adopt the philosophy of making the existing features really good before building new ones, and there is a lot of low-hanging fruit for us to pick for now.

I'd like to get geospacial support in, but it will take a bit of time before we can get to that. We'll likely get it in within a year, so it's a fairly long-term feature for now.
Songbird is shutting down
It's even worse than you think, because several of the things you said in there don't actually make sense. It sounds like you possibly didn't manage to get the message encrypted at all, just signed.

And how you exchange public keys matters a great deal -- if you just send them over email, you haven't actually achieved any meaningful security.

So yes. The entire process is a usability nightmare.
Hm, unfortunate that those who know what it is will recognize it and not think that and the rest will be confused and close the tab and move on. And the comments (on the Wired article) aren't remotely helpful.
Transfers in and out of Bank Simple
Ask HN: Do you need for a TV Guide?
Most TV guides are messy tables. It's not really a nice design's experience . Do you think there could be improvements in this area?
hmm. tDCS and DBS are certainly really interesting technologies, but i still don't see them having any recreational mechanism. in the case that they can act as monoamine releasing agents, the absolute best case is that you can make a meth-band.

the second study is completely irrelevant to the point you were trying to make. not trying to be mean but i just don't understand how a study about the efficacy of tDCS in studies is related to possible recreational effects from tDCS/DBS.
There is no GC in iOS
wall street is dumb
3x24" screens at 1920x1200 each.

More and more thinking I may be better served by a single 27" or 30".
Magic Pixel Games - Game Server Engineer - Full Stack
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• Proficient in at least one dynamic language and application scale development with an accompanying web framework, preferably JavaScript and Node.js
• Well-versed in HTTP, RESTful API design principles, security concerns and optimization techniques such as caching and request batching
• Blocking IO calls make you cringe
• Self-motivated, proactive and engaged attitude towards the project and the technology to make it happen
• Comfortable working on an agile and collaborative team
• Strong debugging and communications skills
• Accurate time and schedule management
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• Extra bonus for experience supporting live games
Experience in data modeling concerns for SQL and NoSQL databases to support low latency and horizontal scalability, preferably MongoDB and Redis
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• Social identity management
• Server sent events, particularly WebSockets and Socket.IO
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• Experience in cocos2d-x and Unity game engines
• Linux proficiency

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If you really feel paranoid, why not use 3-4 different encryption algos in a chain? The probability of ALL of them being broken is extremely low.
see, this is the thing about glass; There's a whole lot of useful stuff you can do with a HUD that doesn't involve a camera, and wearing a HUD would be a hell of a lot more socially acceptable if people didn't assume they always came with cameras.

Or hell, just a 'the camera is on' indicator. a red light, or a bit of plastic you can slide over the lens or something. (I mean, clearly, both of these things can be faked, but there are a thousand other ways to conceal a camera on your person, if you are being deceitful. The important bit is to make a clear way of setting the social expectation that the camera is on/off.) Personally, I'd favor some kind of physical lens block, as it guarantees my privacy (during the times I physically block the camera) even if the firmware is compromised.
The reason you would advertise a page like this is to get lots of people to visit it. It gives Snowden the ability to look like any of the other (tens?) of thousands of people who visit the URL in the next little while.
Where do you get that the Luddites' only complaint was having something to do?

“How are those men, thus thrown out of employ to provide for their families?” asked the petitioners.
We need a constitutional party.
Keep it public, but use a very good passphrase. That's not impossible to do.

I'm not a crypto type but I believe what you want is a password-based key derivation function such as scrypt, the output of which you can then use as the symmetric key to encrypt/decrypt the private key. (This might even be what GPG/SSH does for you; I'm not at all sure)
Health decisions don't exist in a vacuum.
The average CCTV camera shot has no audio and very poor overall detail. And, unless you happen to stand in one perfect spot for a long time, anything they capture is a fleeting moment at best.

Glass is capturing full audio and video, in usable quality, of the person the wearer is interacting with.
Raymond from Shirts.io here.

Shirts of the week? Done: http://imgur.com/PWUsJ5s

For anyone looking to start a new t-shirt company using Shirts.io, we can give $100 in account credit for you to get started. Just email me: raymond at shirts dot io.
Onion Pi - Make a Raspberry Pi Into a Anonymizing Tor Proxy
Over the years I've know quite a few Apple fans that were masochistic.
Interesting, the encrypting key is "Verax (Informed Democracy Front)" and claims to have been created on May 20th.

I can't tell what key the message is encrypted for. They may have used --hidden-recipient
Happy birthday! Here's your present: Perl 6.

Pattern matching: Junctions[1][2], Multiple Dispatch[3][4]

Call by name: Macros(syntactic)[5] since you mention them, possibly Parcels[4]? The language is entirely introspective (and mostly written in itself), so I can imagine a some ways to implement both call-by-name and call-by-need by using complex function signatures and subroutines as types.

[1]: http://perlcabal.org/syn/S09.html#Junctions

[2]: http://perlcabal.org/syn/S03.html#Junctive_operators

[3]: http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html

[4]: http://dave.whipp.name/sw/perl6/perl6_xmas_2008.html, see Multiple Dispatch section

[5]: http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/day-23-macros/
It is actually an old, old, old, design term. "Flat design" isn't new to the designers I know who were designing back in the 1960s.

Just like everything else, software has fashion trends. Right now, flat is in. Once people get used to flat, something else will appear with the "innovative" look.
What more is there to glean from this bogus message?

$ gpg -vvv -d letter-to-snowden.txt
gpg: using character set `utf-8'
gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/faqs.html for more information
gpg: armor: BEGIN PGP MESSAGE
gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin)
gpg: armor header: Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org
:pubkey enc packet: version 3, algo 1, keyid 5B50940B79DEBE35
data: [4096 bits]
gpg: public key is 79DEBE35
:encrypted data packet:
length: unknown
mdc_method: 2
gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 79DEBE35
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
As anyone who ever engaged in meaningful activity can tell you, such activity is its own reward. If you're not inventing something to solve a problem you have, or that someone whom you would like to help has, but ONLY to make profit, it will sooner or later show in the inventions you make, and in the world shaped by them, too.
Get rid of corporate entitlements like patents, obscenely long copyrights, the FDA (yes, it's an entitlement -- see how hard it is for a little guy to compete when the hurdles are so high), etc. etc. and then see how it shakes out.
I don't know, my 4G/LTE phone gets vastly superior upload (though expected)/download speeds to my cable connection, far better than any wired internet package I can get.
"Available to WSJ.com Subscribers"
I'm confused about the transition from Glass (Google product, no?) to discussion of Microsoft's messaging problems. Can someone explain the relationship?
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If you are not American, our laws apply to you

Huh??

Even if someone is physically not in the US? Have I misunderstood something for a very long time?
> Sure, but who decides what the right number is for a basic income? No matter what number you pick there will be a portion of the population who sees that number as "good enough" and will cease to work.

This is, to an extent, self-controlling because people opting out of the labor pool decreases the size of the pool, increases the market-clearing price for labor, and increases the incentive to opt in to the labor pool.

The other thing is that it gives people more freedom to undertake speculative efforts (you still need to get funding to meet any costs of the effort itself, assuming that basic income isn't high enough to provide a surplus that can be used for that purpose, but you don't need as much savings to meet your own living expenses while undertaking a speculative effort.) Opting out of the conventional labor market doesn't necessarily mean opting out of work.

> This is good as it reduces the supply of labor, thus increasing the wages of those who do work. But it also reduces the amount of income available for taxation, as this basic income isn't taxed.

Its not clear that this is the case: sure, those who opt out of work will no longer be paying income taxes, but, as you note, wages for those who work are driven up by supply -- which also increases the total amount of income taxes paid by those who work. What effect this has in total is unpredictable; it seems intuitively likely that overall labor-derived income would drop, which would be expected to drop income tax revenues in a flat tax regime, but its also likely those dropping out would be on the lower end of the labor-derived income scale, and in a progressive tax system, that, combined with increased wages for workers, could still increase overall income tax revenues.
Yeah. Someone in one of the earlier iOS 7 threads was complaining that Android icons didn't have consistent outlines like on iOS, but giving them their own distinctive silhouettes seems to be Android's icon style.
I wonder if Microsoft's far reaching agreements with publishers are going to see XBox One games come out at $49.99 instead of $59.99. I normally buy 5-10 games a year, so a $10 difference could easily make me tilt slightly more towards the One. Really the only thing that irks me is the phoning home daily thing. My internet has been down for more than a day at least twice in the past year, and I filled my time with console gaming rather than Steam or other services.
It can capture, but their is a light on the device that turns on when it is capturing video to let people around know that. The problem is that people don't know about this convention, and so just assume the worst.