skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These guys, they are amazing entrepreneurs. I don't say that lightly. Read about James and Andrew story in Haiti here http://darineich.com/startups-beanbags-earthquakes-and-fires...
This is horrible...I will never understand why people do things like this.

I am glad to see that the victim stuck with wrestling as it is a great sport that has had a positive impact on many people's lives.
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Even better: One surgeon wrote a mathematics book in a decade in Microsoft Word!

It's better than anything I've read from any mathematician. They seem to forget that people don't know what they are talking about to start with.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/039304002X
New optical laser can increase DVD storage up to one petabyte
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Considering the number of job postings I've seen where they want N+ years of experience, I'd say it's easier to find that in C++ than Ada if they do that.
Or you could sell the books and use the proceeds to buy an e-book PDF of the same book. :)
"I'm sorry, Dave, you are only a hallucination"
What are some other examples of "lightweight" block ciphers? Is AES considered lightweight, or are these far "lighter"?
The videos I've seen so far are kind of an artsy fartsy super-8 b-roll look. Doesn't seem any worse than the photos. Of course it depends on who you follow. Not necessarily looking forward to seeing video from my family members who mainly post screengrabs of motivational slogans or their dogs.
Just to balance out the negative comments, I actually really like Quartz.

- Scrolling down into the next article and having the article list as a sidebar is a neat way to encourage exploration. It makes the site a bit more "sticky".

- I like that ads are unobtrusive and placed at the end of the articles. And unlike nytimes.com, there's no paywall.

- I find the site's overall design crisp and relatively uncluttered compared to most news sites.
Consult a lawyer.

If you believe that keeping your existing name is worth something to your startup, put that money where your mouth is and pay a professional.
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I'm more familiar with mushrooms than plants. But are a ton of plants that aren't served for various reasons. In terms of plants that aren't served specifically because they have a high likelihood of causing bad reactions, I'm not sure -- milkweed and certain species of fiddleheads might be good examples. There are lots of different reasons for why certain foods aren't commercially available, and often it's just completely arbitrary. E.g. the reason you can't buy coca tea is that Obama doesn't recognize religions different from Christianity as being valid. (His administration specifically lobbied the UN not to let South Americans use it for religious purposes.)
There, fixed. Hope the new theme is easier to read.
I don't follow SEO stuff much but I recall a number of people bitching and moaning about a big Google algorithm change in March 2012.

Perhaps related?
I think to make this stick you need to stop net accumulating stuff, for example:

- Have a one-in-one out policy on gadgets, clothes, toys, games etc.

- Don't buy DVD/BluRays (only rent or stream), CDs (Spotify/iTunes) or Books (Kindle) etc. (or use one in one out)

- Go paperless with your bills
Yes. These are part of the collection of the National Security Archive at GWU. The summaries in the first link give some better context on what this actually is (especially the one on Document 5, at the end)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4/

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html
People have had that reaction to NSA-endorsed cryptosystems ever since they withheld the derivation of the DES S-boxes for a number of years. Wikipedia states [1]:

"The 8 S-Boxes of DES were the subject of intense study for many years out of a concern that a backdoor -- a vulnerability known only to its designers -- might have been planted in the cipher. The S-Box design criteria were eventually published (in Coppersmith 1994) after the public rediscovery of differential cryptanalysis, showing that they had been carefully tuned to increase resistance against this specific attack."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_box
Way to make me feel stupid for missing the seed :)
I've never used Optimizer+ so I might have to compare it with my nginx/php5-fpm/apc buildouts.

I understand compiling bytecode to memory but I still wish there was a way to write files bytecode files back to the disk in a similar fashion to python.
But what if modern liberal ideology is wrong and human beings do exhibit sexual dimorphism? Will we ever stop firing researchers who hypothesize this long enough to find out?

I dunno. Will the so-called "researchers" ever stop coming up with hypotheses about gender that are so culturally specific and downright [WEIRD](http://www.psmag.com/magazines/pacific-standard-cover-story/...) that a second-year anthropology student can refute them?
It's probably causal as well. Faster gait means walking is more convenient, so the subject does it more, so the subject gets more exercise.
This is a great idea! Definitely showing this to my beer drinking buddies!
the 10's was world war 1, so i think it's pretty easy to say that was worse. the 20's were pretty good until the crash right at the end.
relax, i'm just envy of your karma.
The web is not just a place for text / words, that is not its heart and soul, and therefore neither is that the case for web design.

I'd say that text is not only the heart and soul of the web, but also of motherfucking civilization. Animation and video are nice, and great adjuncts to text. But language is still the most common and easy way to store and share information intended to be consumed by humans, and since that's what the Web is all about, it's not only natural that the Web should be language-focused, but also unnatural that it be anything else.
Ha, more likely a recruiting tool! Reads Article Checks Email "Hello! We are looking for programmers with an understanding of the SIMON and SPECK families of lightweight block ciphers."
You're not going to work for Henry Ford. In the best scenario, you'll be working for a Zuckerberg, who doesn't even know what a "career" is; in the worst scenario, you'll be working for a bunch of well-connected MBAs who need monkeys to pass a bucket X many times per day, and why would a monkey ever stop passing the bucket he's paid for passing?

Think about where you want to be, skill up and try to get there on your own TODAY, not in 5 years. Wall Street only cares about the next quarter, so that's what modern companies optimize for, and why workers are treated like they are.
I used to work at a thrift store. The amount of value we could extract from the average box of stuff dropped off to donate . . . was nowhere near $10. In fact, a lot of it couldn't be sold at all -- it just got thrown away.

Broken toys, clothes with holes, dirty shoes, smoke-damaged, water-damaged, and just plain damaged stuff. Ugly nick-nacks, beat up plastic cups, dated books no one wants to read. We got so many tins and baskets! Everyone gets them full of cookies or gifts, no one wants to throw them away, and no one actually has a use for them.

My co-worker and I did the master sorting -- sending stuff to different departments or to the trash. I saw it all. Her summary? "People send us their garbage!"

And that's the stuff that people could be bothered to drive to the store, look a person in the eye, and drop off without too much embarrassment. This was stuff they genuinely thought was valuable.

A box you can fill with crap from your garage?

Well.

Paying $1 for that sight unseen is probably too much. $10 plus postage is . . . endearingly naive.
Deuterium/Tritium fusion is vastly more efficient than light hydrogen fusion.
Yea, to clarify I was saying they were smart to capitalize on the simplicity of the GIF format (even though they're using movies), using a similar presentation style vs a typical movie presentation UI.
Isn't the Reddit team still pretty small. I think they do pretty well for the amount of traffic to engineers ratio.
Thanks! I had no idea Amazon did this.

The FAQ says they buy textbooks, but the page shows recent non-textbook books I've purchased as items I could "get up to $10.98". Have you sold books before? I usually sell my books to my local Half Price Books, but they pay a pittance.
There is still zero contrast. Light on dark works. Dark on light works. Pale gray on light does not work.

You know how dark your emphasized words are? The whole piece needs to be at least that dark just to be readable.
The Altair wasn't really the first, though. The Micral-N http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micral , the MCM/70 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70 and Intel's own stuff predate it. Then there was the Datapoint 2200 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200 , the "terminal" for which the Intel 8008 was originally designed.
Exercise doesn't have to be intentional. I think this is probably partly causal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5914630
It's ironic that the PDF download is called 404.pdf. When I saw the name, I thought the link was broken and their error page was a PDF.
Internet Censorship and Control Papers
Thanks for sharing your experience. A significant problem with your post that I'm assuming you don't realize because you are blind is that there is only one paragraph. It would be easier to read if you put two carriage returns or line breaks before "I think some of the issues", and another two before "Often times being blind". Currently it seems like a wall of text.

edit: much better!
I had the same though, but the NSA is actually the one who published, or vetted, most of the encryption tools in common use today.

(DES, AES, SHA1, etc)
"X field/industry sure is slow to develop" is a favorite topic on HN, whether it's airline travel, car dealerships, or bicycle helmets. I think there's an undercurrent of comparing progress in every field to that in computation (i.e. Moore's law), without actually studying the other field.
An oddly lengthy article considering its topic (simplicity).

Useful nonetheless. It puts into words the visceral reactions we have all had at some point to "How hard would it be to...?"
#777 on a white background is still not enough contrast.
Mitigating BEAST attack on TLS with GnuTLS
IMHO, I think that is because no one uses the Vine app to consume vine content, so they must post to twitter to share their videos. However, with Instagram, I open up that app specifically to look at photos that people I follow in Instagram have shared.

My Instagram social network is largely independent of the other large ones (twitter, FB, G+) with only a slight overlap, so it definitely deserves its own consumption, and would also explain the reason that the vine shares are more prevalent on twitter than instagram shares.
PHP 5.5.0 released.
Misrepresented fish is said to be common in the US (http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2013/02/21/fake-fis...). How do you know you were getting fugu?
That's simply not cool, you will also get much worse service for much higher price than in the rest of the world.

Taxes are more fair in this regard.
You consider Helvetica Neue body text in font-weight: 300 and color: #777 to be easy to read?

Jesus. I must be getting old or something.

I feel like this trend is a new kind of sickness plaguing web design everywhere. Even The Verge does it in articles: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/17/4436332/macbook-air-review...
To put it another way: asm.js is not separate virtual machine; it really is "just Javascript", both in intention and when executed.

But it is a separate abstract machine with its own formal semantics, including its own type system et al.

Don't get confused: you can treat anything as an abstract machine and formalize its semantics. For example, "x86 minus the PUSH and POP instructions" could be formalized as an abstract machine that you can work with. The resulting machine only exists on the level of formalism; you might actually execute the code you're written for this machine on an x86, just having not emitted any LOADs or STOREs. In the same way, targeting the asm.js abstract machine doesn't mean there has to be an asm.js VM: the formalism just targets a subset of Javascript that current Javascript VMs already have useful optimizations for.
>Nine women can't make a baby in one month.
Pretty old ones can. My father's eyesight is a bit problematic now, and I have him running an old Windows version, perhaps as old 2007 or I think older, because their "New and Improved!" versions at least back then had impossibly small type.
Sadly that preference has been made rather less strong (presumably after some behind the scenes lobbying...). http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Open-source-preferenc...
Yes, the abstract is a horrible tool, isn't it?
>Yes, America has a large population, but that means it also has a very large number of taxpayers, therefore an enormous budget.

I don't blame you if you think this way. You're canadian. You don't know wtf you're talking about. ;)

1. Not everyone in the US has a job. More than 23 million Americans are unemployed/underemployed.[1] And are therefore paying very little/not paying taxes. A large population means a large pool of tax payers, and an even larger pool of non-tax payers.

2. Income inequality. The middle-class/rich are paying more taxes."CNN: The rich pay majority of U.S. income taxes"[2] The top 10% earners of this country already pays more than 70% of all the income taxes.

3. Entitlements are already killing the US economy. 62% of the federal budget goes to entitlement.[3] Where are you going to get the $4-$6 trillion to pay for Obamacare??? OH RIGHT, 4 straight years of trillion dollar deficit under Obama. The government is already borrowing money to pay for existing entitlements![4]OR tax wealthy people! (those earning more than $250K under Obama's plan).

you are laughably uninformed about the issues regarding entitlements in America.

[1]http://www.cnbc.com/id/49450120

[2]http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/12/news/economy/rich-taxes/inde...

[3]http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spe...

[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_Sta...
Likewise false, or else find me an image that very clearly indicates the same content as, say, the Gettysburg Address.

Images can be understood beyond the bounds of a single language, but only for the very simplest of concepts. Go more complex than a sentence or so, and interpretations begins to muddy the waters in ways that language simply does not.
Since you brought it up, there are great things happening in the Ethernet Switching space, just nothing that makes it to the front page of a site like Hacker News. I'm an engineer at Arista Networks, where I get to work on some really impressive "hardcode" technologies: ridiculously scalable protocols, very distributed systems, really interesting uptime/redundancy requirements, and much more.

However, let's not start idolizing the networking field so quickly. This in an industry with a lot of entrenched interests, which, like in all B2B businesses, leads to a lot of FUD being spread around and glacier-paced rates for adopting new technologies. There's plenty that I envy about the consumer app space.

In any case, if you guys are interested in learning more about some of the hard technical problems being tackled in the networking space, I'd be happy to do a couple of writeups exploring the non-consumer world of tech. (And, if that stuff tickles your fancy, we're hiring!)
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> It's not widely known or understood, but there are, in my opinion, quite a few ways to make significantly superior jet engine replacements.

> Factors of 2 or 3 in specific power and efficiency are possible. Due to the rocket equation, this could yield vastly longer range and more efficient aircraft (1/10 the weight, 10x the range, 10x the efficiency, 2x the speed...).

I'd like to hear about these, assuming they produce comparable amounts of thrust as jet engines while being a reasonable size (so as not to increase drag excessively).
Oh well, at least it's not RationalWiki /trollface.jpg.
Great read. One thing worries me: if we standardize a subset of JavaScript that browsers can execute quicker, won't it cause a decline in the use of fully-featured, human-written JavaScript? Developers may reasonably choose to write all their web code in languages that are compiled to asm.js subset. As a result, we will lose benefits that a scripting language that is human edited and readable gives.
Wait...whatever happened to "A picture is worth a thousand words"?
How is this different from mongodb? Aside from being written in javascript and having a non-existent community around it?
I wouldn't dismiss the smart phone so easily. Yeah, a lot of people use them to play games and do other trivial tasks, but the popularity of the iphone pushed telecom companies to radically upgrade their infrastructure, and while we are not there yet, hopefully the end result is fast, ubiquitous, and cheap connections to the internet around the globe. We are already seeing some of the possibilities, and I can't even begin to imagine what the future will look like (if I could, I would be feverishly working to make it happen), but wireless internet is certainly going to be a key component, and we have the iphone (or more precisely, the popularity of the iphone) to thank for getting it started.
Looks fun and informative for new programmers. That said I don't understand why this has so many points, and don't really think it belongs here.
So they're running low on office space? That's a bottleneck for the F-35?
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You consider Helvetica Neue body text in font-weight: 300 and color: #777 to be easy to read?

If you are an iOS user, prepare to be bummed in a few months...
Another post that actually loaded for me: http://homotopytypetheory.org/2013/06/20/the-hott-book/

[incidentally, it's the official post announcing the book]
This is dark.
I was too young to be a participant, however I do remember reading about all the happenings around crypto in the 80s and 90s.

It's healthy to suspect crypto systems because of their role in protecting us.
That's why web typography is worth knowing as well!
Surely this could have been a criticism of C?

Won't we lose the benefits of an assembly language that is human edited and readable?
I think the answer is yes, but with a huge caveat: incentives must be build around the social norms that made open source successful in the first place. Incentives built on financial norms would be disastrous and act as strong disincentives instead. Humans are weird, and we act differently when operating under financial norms than we do under social norms. Dan Ariely explains this quite nicely in a lot of his talks, you should google it if you haven't seen it.

This is why I'm really skeptical of things like gittip or other "we'll pay you pennies to spend hours of your life building open source projects" approaches.

I much more excited by the cultural shift that seems to be happening around "my github account is my resume". It's not just a "write open source as resume padding to get a better job" thing, it's an increase in the amount of social capital resulting from contribution to open source. Basically if people find out I contribute to a "good" open source project more people care and the people who care, care more than they used to.

I think this is an excellent incentive scheme. A popular open source project cannot generate enough revenue to pay me what my contribution is worth so it's impossible for them to incentivize me with money. But if my reputation is increased because my contribution is recognized and my peers think more of me, my ideas are more easily heard and my financial career path opportunities are expanded because of that reputation then I am highly motivated to contribute.

I think there's a big place for the patronage/sponsorship model as well (and the incentives to be a patron are quite similar), especially for getting the necessary but boring/less sexy things done. It can also push back, in one way, against the problem of reputation based incentives undervaluing boring but high-value work.
TEA is another lightweight cipher. AES isn't lightweight. At the end of the first 1/3rd of this paper there's a chart comparing code size and throughput for ciphers by key/block size; that's what you want to pay attention to.

You would tend to use ciphers like these in applications where the time/value of your information wouldn't justify the silicon or code space of a general-purpose cipher. Note also that neither of these ciphers were designed with any thought to the open-key security model, where the adversary knows the key in advance, as is the case with hashes. I don't know what this means to to the security of using, say, SIMON in a construction where the cipher core is also a PRF for a MAC, like CCM.
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Do they have an archive of previous versions? Due to annoying incompatibilities between recent versions (6.0+) of Skype and skype4pidgin[1], I've been considering switching back to 5.0.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/
Sounds lovely. Is that really a thing? I guess if you paid me enough money, I'd put up with that, but mostly, this makes me glad I declined their job offer several years ago.
That's a great anecdote. Out of curiosity, how did you find the site? I had just turned four at the time, so I don't quite remember what browsing the Internet was like then.
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I agree with you that the web is not only about words, but I don't think that was necessarily what Justin's post was trying to say. He said words are a powerful tool on the web, that global communication is magical, and that it doesn't need to be overly complicated to share ideas with others. He said "start with with words" not "only ever use words and nothing else".

I think he was indeed placing a greater weight on the value of words over other tools, but I don't think that's necessarily incorrect. Certainly the web is about more than just words: it's about connecting human ideas together. Those connections can take form through a vast array of media. But I agree with Justin that at its core, the web is more about words than it is about videos or images or WebGL (as it is today). If you took the words out of the internet I think I would be missing some of the most important parts. If I didn't have access to youtube or flickr (videos or images) I think I'd still have access to a lot of the value I find in the internet.
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You think there are objectively useful uses for your time? I mean, ok, profitable sure, but objectively useful? That one's a religious argument.
Whether I'm right or wrong, Matt has millions of dollars for litigation. The law isn't about who's right, it's about the resources you have to stand in the fight.
you know what else makes antibiotics more effective? bleach. this paper is ridiculous. figure 4: no tested amount of silver nitrate is noncytotoxic. end of story.
This is very naive. The NSA is a $10bn/year agency that functions as our nation's center of excellence for breaking into computers. They don't need to sabotage PDFs to pop your machine.
No, because assembler was not shipped to clients, it was compiled anyway to unreadable binary. JavaScript is shipped to clients, you can open and examine it (if it is not obfuscated).