skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I eat only until I'm satiated

Yes, but what do you eat?

You can eat a whole bunch of processed carbs and starches until you're satiated, or you can eat chicken and broccoli until you're satiated. The results will be tremendously different.

Avoiding sugar is good, but by itself it is not sufficient - especially if you are still consuming copious amounts of carbs.
One word (pun intended): Hieroglyphs.
I just signed up for an account and posted an idea! As a developer, I think this is a great tool to get users before deciding to sink into a project that might never see the light of day
I miss MySpace pages too.
This presentation seems to be missing the point. It's about "web apps" so presumably JS apps running in the browser, however as far as I know you cannot access the DOM from ASM.js code, so creating a JS app is not going to be easy.

Then there's the "small problem" of having to develop this in C++, which means you don't have access to all the nice new frameworks that are being developed - AngularJS, emberJS, etc. and have to deal with the joy of dangling pointers, memory leaks, slow compilation time, etc. (even though you might not even need the speed benefit of C/ASM.js). That makes development time a lot longer for no obvious benefits. And of course, there's also the nightmare of debugging cryptic ASM.js code in the browser if something doesn't work.

I can see the point of ASM.js for games or apps where very high performance is required but for web apps I'd rather stick to regular JS.
Yep. Over the past couple of months I got my mom a new All-In-One Windows machine, and while I was shopping a Lenovo A520 was by far the front runner. Listed on Amazon (out of stock), listed on multiple product pages on the Lenovo website (Lenovo phone sales: "Keep checking back"), and a month or so later it just disappeared without so much as a wimper. It was launched in October 2012. Dell deserved my money in the way a hobo who deserves my change is the one not threatening to hurt me.
“The world's most private search engine”
I don't know whether it's a mistake or not but I see a lot of new location/locality/city specific apps/startups coming out as only in city A,B or maybe works only in the USA. Though I'm sure majority of HNers are north Americans, most of these starups/services could actually open up to the world.

What happens is you see an app and from the outside it seems promising, you go inside and it's like "oh, great! USA only" or maybe "SF only" etc. One solution would be to just put a banner on home page "ABC only as of now" or whatever.
So this is somewhat OT, but: how much compiling do you actually _do_ in-situ on your laptop?

I mostly look, these days, for the best possible portable pane-of-glass I can get that allows me to do all my work on "real" computers -- in the cloud and in our office lab. I'd much rather have epic battery life for my web browser and terminals than have more cores in the thing I carry around.
One of the reasons the big SF/Valley companies are opening Canadian offices is that even Canada's most expensive cities (Toronto, Vancouver) are a relative bargain. Engineering salaries are lower, rents are cheaper, and government money is plentiful (SRED, etc).

I think it will do two things to Vancouver's startup ecosystem. In the short term it will be painful as you lose talent to the better funded new competition. In the long term it is a win as the big companies validate the Vancouver 'brand', increasing exposure and attracting new investment.
Can you cite your source regarding the NSA operated Tor exit?

I do not mean this to be snarky -- if you have a legitimate source other than hearsay, I'd love to see it.
The browser on a Nexus 7 when an app requests a webview is WebKit 534.30.
Chrome 27.0.1452.90 on Android 4.2.2 is WebKit 537.36.
Appears there are two 'stock' browsers, no rooting or sideloading necessary.
Erlang is not that performant in the general case compared to C/Java/etc. While the conceptual overhead in distribution is much lighter with Erlang, actual computation in an idiomatic implementation tends to be slower than Scala/Akka.

Of course, there are tasks for which an Erlang implementation would be faster, but as others have mentioned, most organizations would prefer to write Scala.

(Yes, I find that icky too. :-))
I fail to see how trading one 25th of a representation of a solution to a math problem can be considered bartering.
Hopefully the company that did this will be taken down.
What I mean by using Tor right, for instance, is avoiding use of certain browser plugins that can potentially give away your location.
It's marketing, friend, nothing personal. Just trying to make some money. You know. It's the 'murican way! No principles, just winning and money.
Seems like theres all these amazing laptops now for all kinds of developers except those that need GPU power (game devs) :(

There's no such thing as a laptop with a good GPU that isn't ugly and bulky, and that doesn't have a nice hi-res IPS screen, and have a good keyboard and touchpad.
"The document, titled Minimization Procedures Used by the National Security Agency in Connection with Acquisitions of Foreign Intelligence, is the latest bombshell leak to be dropped by UK-based newspaper The Guardian."

All good news!

1: The Guardian is still time-releasing, I thought they caved under a IGIC -sorry, what ever its called over there - gag order.

2: Now we know what to do to backup into the NSA cloud! Another USA world benefit: a highly secure service for all the world to avail themselves for free.

3: web app $opportunity$! tor p2p delivery and crypto of your files into free NSA Cloud, for only $0.99!
There's a similar app called "myfreestuff" that automates posting to freecycle mailing lists. Freecycle can be a pain due to latencies and no-shows. Liking forward to trying this one out.

[edit] oops, it requires a facebook login. As a Facebook Luddite, I'll have to ask my wife to check it out for me.
> Eventually, quantum computers should be able to eat though any of today's crypto

Probably not. Quoting from http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/03/09/guess-why-were-moving-t...:

A quantum of bits [Update: March 20, 2013]

I reached out to the cryptographic community for any insight into Molly’s question about why the NSA insists that TOP SECRET material be encrypted using 256-bit keys. The answer came from Steven Bellovin of Columbia University:

@jpgoldberg @marshray Just heard that during the AES competition, NSA said in the open meetings it was for defense against quantum computing

Quantum computers, if they are every made practical, will be able to do amazing things. They will certainly change how we design cryptographic systems. It’s not that quantum computers will be faster or more powerful. Indeed, in some very important respects they will be less powerful than current computers. But there are some things that they will be able to do in less “time”. I put “time” in scare quotes because it has a different meaning in this context from the ordinary use of the word. Oh, what a big difference it is. In this context it means the number of distinct steps an algorithm must take in performing some computation.

Searching through 2128 keys (on a classical, non-quantum, computer) takes a number of steps that is proportional to 2128. But for a quantum computer it takes a number of steps proportional to the square root of that number, 264. If a quantum computer is ever built capable of performing that task, we don’t know how the actual speed of each individual step will compare to those of current computers, but the NSA is taking no chances. Something with the effective strength of a 64-bit key isn’t strong enough. A 256-bit key against a quantum brute force attack would have the effective strength of a 128 bit key against a classical brute force attack.

I very much doubt that we will see a quantum computer actually capable of handing such things within the next thirty years. But if the past is any guide, my predictions about the future should be taken with a large grain of salt.
I agree, and I hesitated before writing that. I phrased it that way not because I believe that government shouldn't be involved, but because given the current funding climate for endeavors such as these it's unreliable to expect the government to become involved.

Carbon credits would be perfect. In fact, if oceanographic organizations such as ORCA could get themselves into the benefactor stream (I'm not sure what the right term is), that would be great. Intuitively, it's not a stretch, either - massive swaths of hypoxic water could have huge impacts on global warming (lack of oxygen-producing organisms also means lack of carbon-consuming organisms, since they're one and the same). But unfortunately our political system is too complex and unless you've already got the funding to pay lobbyists you're just not going to get very far.
Know of any non-obvious stego of 10MB, 100MB, and larger file size?
Pirate Bay Co-Founder Warg Found Guilty of Hacking
There's a whole spectrum of users, as well. Programmers can be Python users, wherein the python implementation takes complexity hits to simplify it for the user.

It's all subjective, and the design of the high level concepts (maybe mechanics?) influence the complexity at every level below it. The idea of a 'file' goes from the GUI down to the hard disc format.
You're right. Just because it isn't the first doesn't make it right.

That being said, Disqus has been around since 2007 and after six years of building trust with businesses and the community they decided to make this change without notifying anyone.
Follow-up: now that I've had time to check, at least there's proper metadata in the .pdf properties. Meantime, my search for the Netscape Navigator of the Semantic Web continues :)
Alas, laws are written by lawyers. :-)
TL;DR: first rule of engineering reliable distributed systems: "do not distribute"
Confused me as well, since this is pretty much what DNS is for - I spent some time trying to figure out the problem being solved...
May I ask what convinced you they were a center of excellence in the 90's? I ask this sincerely, not in rebuttal.

What do you make of the comments of Binney that NSA was caught sleeping (for lack of a better phrase) by 9/11? Why the need to "transform" the agency? He said he headed a group that was responsible for instituting change in the organization. I believe they even had "change" in the name given to the group. It sure seems like they want(ed) to morph into something they were not previously.
The title implies the NSA would delete any of it, by their own volition. I don't believe they would, since any data could retroactively become useful to them.
Features are what sells products, the cost is that they make the product more complex (and add to the cost).

Simple products are often easy to use, and document, which is one of the reasons Apple does so well.
Does that mean it searches private info? Or does it mean that nobody uses it? Maybe it means that the searches are anonymized?
I have plenty to hide. Like... my server passwords!
It sounds like the reviewer had, what, less than a minute with the machine?
Maybe I haven't read every single article but is there anything we know about Mr. Snowden that would have flagged him during this process?
Microsoft jumps the short-video-sharing bandwagon with So.cl Blink
thanks for the Noah Kagan links!

the MS and google templates are financial model templates, but I appreciate it.
If you're looking for something a little more packaged and not averse to installing a Ruby gem, this will manage multiple AWS accounts and allow you to ssh/scp using AWS instance IDs as the target:
https://github.com/mheffner/awsam
"I will start GPG encrypting email to anybody I know who will be able to deal with it"

As sad as it is to say, lets be honest and admit that this is a fairly small number. How long do you think it will be till your less committed friends get tired of decrypting your emails and just ignore what you send? Make sure you only pick people that use actual email clients because gpg and Gmail is no fun.

As far as the "Thomas Crowne Affair attack" goes generating effective cover traffic is not easy and random traffic is definitely a bad idea. Basic traffic analysis would be able to separate your legit emails from your cover traffic.

Addendum: I noticed you just generated your new gpg key yesterday. Why not go big and use a 4096 bit key?
I find that Shift-Fn is particularly easy to chord since they share a boundary. I usually use pinky on Fn and ring finger on Shift.
"I seriously believe that if I was to tell you that Obama had a massive program to collect and record the phone activities of every American at any time for any reason two months ago you would of called 'bullshit' so fast that it would of made my head spin."

What makes you think that the latest news has changed my assumptions about the NSA? There has been evidence of widespread surveillance by the NSA for decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

These sort of programs span multiple administrations. There was never any reason to believe that the Obama administration would end them.
I agree with you to an extent but I guess it comes down to how you judge a good essay. I wouldn't expect a literary masterpiece but if the candidate can convey their intended message in a clear, unambiguous and concise manner, I'd take that as a fairly good indicator of decent organisational skills.
It seems a little extreme to jump to "paralyzed by fear." I mean, the person got the job in the first place.
I got brick walled by a request to sign-up to get posts emailed. That's a terrible way to welcome new readers.
Next Generation Video: Introducing Daala
A good citation? It's a value judgment.
Do you just want them to store more? Because using tor to renew your car registrations seems like an obvious way to connect some dots.
If that's all, then I salute you!
Indeed, I think that was how Bell Labs was created.
Point — but you're even less optimistic than Gresham!
>quantum computers should be able to eat though any of today's crypto

Please read:

Wikipedia:One Time Pad

or

"My crypto assumes RH(Riemann hypothesis)" if it can be broken,
RH is proved. Thank you `quantum quack quack quamputer!

Or if you actually believe this

Wikipedia: The Time Machine(film)

Grrrrrrrrrrr...
The last. It basically acts as a proxy: You type in your query, and IxQuick (aka startpage.com) queries Google on your behalf, thereby shielding you from the associated analytics and tracking. It also claims to not store the IP address associated with an individual query.

Edit: more info here: https://ixquick.com/eng/aboutixquick/
Also, I think the argument that "slow" isnt moving us forward is just not thinking the issue entirely through.
Most people writing code today would not be if not for slower (and more human understandable) languages.

Why dont we just remove all keys from a developer's device besides 0s and 1s so they can program in the fastest computer language!
> ut continued success in the field depends more upon emotional skills like confidence, perseverance, resilience, social skills, and leadership.

Eh. That simply sounds like the correlation weakens a bit, but is far from the claims people make like 'IQ is irrelevant'.

> "Our conclusion is that for subjects brought up under present-day educational regimes, excess in IQ above 140 or 150 adds little to one's achievement in the early adult years." - Louis Terman, 39th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education Part I, pp. 83-84

Terman may have thought so, but with the full dataset this is clearly not so. Check out http://www.iza.org/conference_files/CoNoCoSk2011/gensowski_m... 'The Effects of Education, Personality, and IQ on Earnings of High-Ability Men', Gensowski et al 2011; IQ never stops mattering, even if personality factors start to matter more.

(Always funny how people can look at a study which goes something like 'X correlates .4 and Y correlates .3, but in the top 1% by X, the correlations are .3 and .4 respectively' and go 'X doesn't matter!' Says something about what they want to believe about X, I think.)
Every single one of your examples as occurred within the U.S. in the past though, and often all at the same time. This frog has often jumped out of the pot.

This is not to say that is any excuse for surveillance for the sake of surveillance. But things like Prism do have a use.

More importantly Big Data is already here and I fear it will be impossible to fully prevent the government from getting their hands into, whether it's stuff like capturing Internet traffic directly or simply ad hoc arrangements with telecom and cloud companies.

In short, we risk allowing incredible capabilities to fall into the hands of a cyber-paramilitary of dubious loyalty to the people.

What we have done with nearly every other dangerous tool is to own it, allow it to exist but specify precisely the conditions under which we will allow it to exist. We formed professional communities around these tools, wrapped them in layers and layers and layers of accountability, law, policy, and yes, transparency.

Of course none of us want the government to spy on us. But I also don't want to pay taxes, or have the government search my home, but both are possible (some with more requirements than others).

Instead most of the discussion dismisses the question out-of-hand: "I don't ever want the government to know anything about me so there's no possible way to demonstrate a situation that would be worth it".

I'm not saying surveillance is worth it here. I'm just trying to figure out why no one seems to even consider the questions.

1. What valid law enforcement or national security purpose can be served by program $X?
2. Can it be uniquely served only by program $X?
3. If it can be served by other programs, can it be done so in a cost-effective way, relative to the risk/reward for program $X?
4. Assuming there are benefit, what risks does the program pose?
5. Can those risks be ameliorated by law, policy, and/or technical means? (E.g. with the crypto wizards at NSA it should be easily possible to implement a collection system which is kept encrypted and requires 2 or 3 parties to agree to decrypt for a given analysis).

You're saying the program is too risky, which kind of pre-supposes that there's a valid use to the program at all. Has anyone here seriously considered, however, whether it's actually socially, organizationally, and technically feasible to implement a program such as this assuming it has a valid use?
It would be interesting to note that due to the fluctuation in pricing of BitCoins, you could probably get away with lower taxes by just doing a conversion of BitCoins to USD at the lowest price that year. Then claiming all of it in USD for the IRS because your BiCoin assets were assessed at that price when you calculated them for taxes. There by avoiding part (up to 20-50%) of the tax.

Or just say you don't have BitCoins, since it would be mighty hard to track that.
> Eventually, quantum computers should be able to eat though any of today's crypto.

Not really; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography A decent chunk of today's crypto is either immune or only weakened a little bit (for example, Bitcoin is mostly immune although the SHA hashes are a little weakened and so hypothetically miners might some day move to quantum computers using Shor's algorithm to mine for matches).
It makes sense for the NSA to run exit nodes for the same reason it makes sense for the U.S. Office of Naval Research to have funded its creation and for the U.S. State Dept. to heavily fund its upkeep. There is a vested U.S. national security interest in residents of hostile regimes to be able to freely access the Internet without being traced, even with the knowledge that it may be used to make it more difficult for the U.S. itself to meet other security goals.
This is a very Diamond Age notion.

(In Neal Stephenson's book, microscopic robots capable of everything from surveillance to entering humans and destroying them from within are an ever-present part of the atmosphere in parts of the earth. Many are there simply to hold the others in check. A fog sometimes results when a battle erupts between groups of drone owners.)

A balance of drones and anti-drones of increasingly smaller and harder to detect sizes does seem quite possible at this point. Certainly, drones are going to get progressively smaller and cheaper and could soon be used by practically anyone to spy on anyone else. Children's toys (e.g. RC helicopters with cameras) have already gone past a 1950's CIA agent's wildest dreams. Either anti-drone defenses are going to develop to keep pace or we're going to have to fundamentally change our notions surrounding privacy.
Noah Kagan's validation technique for a brick and mortar location
Huh. That's a neat language.

One thing that struck me was how many of these concepts have been incorporated into Clojure. One of the top Github projects in Clojure is Instaparse, a DSL for parsing grammars like the example at the end of this article.
Economic and travel freedom? Mutual understanding and the exchange of culture?
Thanks for the explanation, that makes more sense.
I think you're missing the point. asm.js does not compete with languages like C++: it complements them.

The traditional toolchain (greatly simplified) looks something like this:

high-level language -> low-level language -> native code

asm.js is a new low-level language that extends this toolchain into the browser runtime.
A headset connected to my computer counts as a phone? Well, it can make phone calls, but I miss having a physical phone.
It's awesome that you've actually taken action on this as an idea rather than just talked about it. (Like me)

I posted a similar idea, amidst several other ideas here that I welcome any and everyone to steal/modify and use for themselves. (Though I won't refuse equity)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/e26/who_wants_to_start_an_important_...

Message me here or at www.Facebook.com/AltonSun since we probably have some mutual friends if you're interested. (Directed towards everyone since I already know Michael as an awesome hacker that consistently cleans up well at top hackathons in the Bay Area.)

Your idea is better than mine for a couple reasons:
1. It's hard to measure whether someone really fulfilled your wish
2. Lower barrier to entry and simpler with just emails, you can reasonably charge the poster some nominal fee rather than the upboaters to keep noise to signal ratio low
Why do you have to get the rest of the jury to agree with it? Isn't it sufficient to have eleven people wanting to convict based off of law, and one person voting no (and sticking to it) because of disagreeing with the law?