skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crypto is in two states: broken, and not yet broken.

I'm reminded of Yeats:

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Anyone confident in their crypto is dangerous.
City scanning all traffic for stolen cars
We have a lot of plans for this, but first we have to test how the searchresults are developing and of course we will adapt the ranking if we need too. Everyone is invited to help us in solving this!
Hi guys, this is a small Node app that uses the leitner system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system).

The submitted example holds the 100 questions you need to study for the U.S. Immigration Exam (for New York State).

Any feedback/ suggestions welcome :)
>"Ballmer is a very intimidating guy both in physical size and attitude and is always ready to be combative."

As larger than average person I'm fascinated/frustrated by the way physical presence affects people.

Most troublesome for me have been people who apparently feel intimidated and project it back as something intentional, as I'm trying to intimidate them or have intimidated others into agreement with me.
> If anything, taxing corporations is regressive

No, its not.

> the taxes ultimately get passed on to consumers through higher product prices, regardless of their income levels.

It increases producer prices which shifts the supply curve to the right, but its pretty self-evident that the effect on actual prices is dependent on price elasticity of demand in the markets for particular products, and that price elasticity of demand is not independent of the income of the people in the market for the product.

> Taxing corporations doesn't produce magic money -- it's still taxing people in the end, but it's the consumers.

No more than taxing labor income (which the US does disproportionately, as much capital income faces lower income tax rates and labor income is subject to additional, non-income taxes) is really taxing corporate stockholders, because it shifts the supply curve for labor increasing market clearing prices of labor and eating into corporate profit margins.

> We should be taxing the people who own the corporations, or are paid huge salaries by them -- that is, if you believe in progressive taxation.

But taxing high salaries is "regressive", just as much as taxing corporations, taxing consumers -- after all, if you shift the supply curve for management work and increase the market clearing price of that good, you are increasing producer costs and, therefore, shifting the supply curve for the good produced in a way which increases the market clearing cost, resulting in price increases to the consumer to pay the taxes. If you are going to make this argument for corporate taxes, you have to apply it to whatever you present as the alternative to corporate taxes, as well.
The big issue with UBI entirely replacing the welfare system is that it ignores those who require more money due to disabilities. Person X can subsist on £Y/week, but person Z needs fooprazatine which costs a non-negligable quantity of £Y (there are also other, more nuanced scenarios but drugs come to mind first). Of course there are ways around it and medical benefit fraud is already incredibly low (it's hard to fake that you need a carer or an expensive regimen of drugs (painkillers notwithstanding)).
Using self-signed SSL certificates with JackDB
Microsoft http://maxcdn.fooyoh.com/files/attach/images/3004/144/040/00...
I've always liked the idea of smart cards, but I also wonder how I would use a smart card to simultaneously log in to a site from, say, my PC and phone. It seems like the card can only be plugged in one place.
Well, if anyone is able for example to implement a TOR client in javascript we would love to add it to the plugin, and the sourcecode of the plugins and Android app is on github, so no cheating there.
Clojure Home Page Framework
Speedy tsunami seen on Sun's surface
If the aim is golf, it's probably best to keep #" ". If the aim is accuracy, we might get better results by using #"[^\w]+". Though that does nasty things to words like "it's".

Edit: Actually, we can also get rid of the 'reverse' by replacing (sort-by val) with (sort-by (comp - val)). Not going to be shorter in terms of character count, though we win on line count.
The thing that will really drive them nuts... What if its a really good design?

Edit: I'm not sure what the downvotes are about: I was just thinking that after years of trying to dehumanize the guy into some sort of illegible monster, what if it turns out he's a generally bright, practical, and well adjusted guy who just happend to reach the conclusion that "death to america" was a rational course of action as opposed to an insane whack-job that "hates our freedom"? That might have the tendency to upset their thinking.
From what I've seen, most of the newer ipmi gear including the dedicated port ones include a standardized i2c interface between the platform controller/ec side (the main server) and the BMC - while it has in most cases similar authentication requirements as the typical ipmi over lan, once you've gotten past that you pretty much can run any ipmi commands, including getting raw access to its private i2c bus which I would assume attaches to its bootstrap flash. Once you're that far in bridging between the two nets would just entail writing some (non trivial) software.
+1 for being super ambitious.

Full disclosure: I work at Google (though not on web search).

Your search actually sucks, perhaps because your index is woefully inadequate. How many pages are in it? Maybe you should use common crawl?
Strange, should work in under one second, but you need to have javascript enabled, the site is made in AngularJS (so no hidden things there too)
Or because homeless people just freeze to death quickly...
So in a no corp-tax world, if a US C-corp just keeps retained earnings and not pays out a dividend, then what? (Like Apple did for years.)

Granted, you still have capital gains from stock trading, etc. But if corporate profits not taxed, the company can simply sit on the money. They don't have to spend it on R&D, or anything else, as they do not need a tax write off.

It's a double-edge sword and there really isn't a silver bullet.
Google scholar page for the paper: http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl...

Direct link to PDF: http://paginaspersonales.deusto.es/claorden/publications/201...

The quality of the research, and that's my own opinion, leaves very much to be desired (many fuzzy assumptions, a lot of hand waving & of the "and then, magic happens" syndrome). This wasn't published at an ACM or IEEE conference, which is typically a first warning sign.

Sadly, the BBC (and other major media outlets, but it's the 2nd time I observe it with the BBC website this month) has a knack for taking academic papers from a year ago (or more), and writing subpar articles about it.
Now I just need a Laptop with Nvidia Graphics that works on Linux. :( :( Is there even one?

I have to use vgaswitcheroo to disable my discrete ATI 4550 card, because it causes artefacts and crashes and consumes too much power. The proprietary driver doesn't even work at all.
I think it is hard to be confident about what would happen. If most people elected to stop working the economy would probably contract. If instead the impact were to give more people the option of making longer term choices, you might see the economy expand.

If the basic income is set at a basic enough level, work should remain an attractive option.
Good, because you can't even spell it in your title.
Azure will not catch AWS because it's not a first class division. It's an offering in a broader context. Contrast with Amazon who has an SVP of AWS (and he's considered one of the "more important" SVPs). Any chance I had of considering Azure just evaporated.

And there's nothing that screams "ownership" like having a VP's reports "dotted-line" report into someone else, and to have that called out in a company-wide email.

Then if you read it, every product MS comes out with will need strong cooperation from 3 SVPs. New Phone? Get the hardware guy, OS guy, and apps guy to coordinate. Recipe for disaster.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/

The problem is that it's really hard to write unit tests to determine if you've gotten the crypto right. For one, the unit tests would have to have a standardized interface to your cryptographic protocol. But if you're using a standard cryptographic protocol, why would you be rolling your own implementation instead of using an existing, well tested and vetted one?

Second, it's quite difficult, in an automated way, to look for the kinds of security vulnerabilities you would need to audit. Timing attacks may show up in different places for different software. Poorly seeded entropy is quite hard to detect; Debian systems were generating keys with only about 16 bits of entropy for years, which is enough that it's hard to detect in an automated way unless you are really looking for that specific breakage but is a devastating security hole. You may have bugs that are not crypto related at all but simple buffer overflows or the like. And so on.

You could probably automate some of it. But on the whole, you need many good, experienced people regularly auditing the code. And it's a lot easier to get that by using an existing, widely used and widely audited library than by rolling your own.
I´m not sure if Australia is a good example.

From Wikipedia:

"The Report, Poverty In Australia, shows that in 2010, after taking account of housing costs, an estimated 2,265,000 people or 12.8% of all people, including 575,000 children (17.3% of all children), lived in households below the most austere poverty line widely used in international research."

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Australia
Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless they can be password protected (which defeats the object...) aren't they less secure than passwords in practice?

The most important difference is that attackers can't get it from the server and re-use it on others, since the server only needs to see the public key of the cert. Attackers can no longer break into a single server and get thousands of badly-secured passwords.

Of course, secure password hashing mitigates this issue, but that means we need to trust each and every server out there to implement that correctly (not likely), while this only requires a correct implementation from the browsers.
They're used extensively in a lot of industry- just because it isn't used for logging onto Gmail doesn't mean it isn't used elsewhere. I work in utilities and client certificates are used for all or nearly all web clients and APIs.
Google Isn't 'Killing' Organic Search
Bending Solid Geometry in Planetary Annihilation
Akka 2.2.0 successfully used with a cluster of 200 Nodes
an email will be sent out with a password equivalent reset token

This is not the only way to do resets and is arguably now the weakest link in authentication (just ask Matt Honan). Sometimes I imagine a world where authentication enrollment and resets are done in person.
Rick from Comprehend here, we're also hiring. Definitely reach out if you're interested in transforming the medical industry! http://www.comprehend.com/careers
The Linux kernel is used in a lot of different devices,
this is true, but it's also a lot leaner than the Windows
one. Although efforts have been made to pare down what
Windows is, it's still got a footprint gigantically bigger
than Linux.

I think Windows Phone 8 shows that this is not meaningfully true anymore. There's more work to be done, but the kernel on those devices are quite minimal, happily running on underpowered ARM devices with minimal RAM, and still leaving plenty of room for apps.
In case anybody was wondering for a second when JS got so awesome -- it didn't, this is a snippet of Python. D'oh. Sigh.
> We felt it would be its own browser.

Why not a browser add-on or extension?
i still have a nexus one with a extended seidio battery. the original battery, since day one, when it reaches 20% the phone shut off. typical google hardware quality... using swype since day one. i think I would have been back to dumb nokia phone if it wasn't for swype. ...after i spend weeks creating a custom linux "language" for it. (select a language you don't have a dictionary for, and create all commands manually in the custom user dict)

I mostly use the phone for GPS and reading email. i'd reply to emails as well, but too painful. Often i have to use it to comunicate or type things. it's not a hardcore usage. i don't even use SSH much on it. It took me 2 years to find out that car chargers are crippled by apple deals and did not charge my phone correctly, so using it as GPS plugged in, i could only get 6h of use. After a little soldering to get a proper car charger, i get a little more, but the phone burns hot.

wife and everyone at work has the samsung ones (s3, s4 and note2) the note 2 i simply can't use for 2 min without pressing the back button accidentally! my nexus one is the opposite. i can't activate the damn buttons one the first try! ever! some people even try and try and just handle me back so i can press the soft button for them (have to press with the 'meaty' part of the finger for it to work).

anyway, i will probably set for the S4 active (with lower camera, cpu and much inferior screen, but at least slightly rugged and has actual buttons)... because a GSM android phone with a qwerty keyboard is non-existent.

i hold my breath at launch for the backflip. excellent keyboard! until i realized it had the worst cpu ever, and as of today, it only runs android 1.5

for good historic phones i've used with good keyboard,
#1 was a nokia 6820 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6820-565.php (maybe same as e70)
General solicitations must still be directed only at accredited investors, not the general public. I feel that this is an important point missing from this conversation.
> You can't use Social Security funds to fund a Basic Income.

Yes, you can.

> It operates similarly to a pension fund

It presents itself as one, but it really operates as a general-tax-supported social-benefit program with a variety of eligibility criteria.

> so it would be equivalent to confiscate peoples lifetime savings.

Sure, some people would politically attack it that way, particularly if the general BI reduced the SS benefits to which people already qualified would receive. Its less subject to this political attack, however, if SS is merged into BI in such a way that no one currently paid into SS ends up with less BI at any point than they would have received from SS.
jcromartie means that adults attracted to 14 year olds are hebephiles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebephilia), not pedophiles.
Buddy, why is nobody using SSL certs anywhere AT ALL?? Plain text passwords are sent on the login forms from sites like Hackathon.io - sites used where hundreds of people meet in a room on the same damn wifi network. RIDICULOUS!! what the hell!
Thanks for the link update.

You are right, you must apply for x jobs per month, and keep a logbook of that activity.

In that sense, yes, it's philosophically different from the unconditional wage, but it's a good example of the effect on society (no extreme poverty, huge middle class, higher taxes, etc.)
"But researchers admit that it does have limitations and will need to be monitored. Although it is has broad conversational abilities, it is not yet sophisticated enough to detect certain human traits like irony"

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/texas-teen-makes-violent-j...

Yeah, I don't think I want this program to be trying to entrap people then turn the police on them.
For the US government, yes.

The person is being sarcastic that US government really claims that, I saw several articles on the subject already, EVERYTHING in Guantanamo is classified, even the color of the towels prisioners use.
If you're only worried that your PRNG doesn't look random, there's TestU01: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/testu01/tu01.html

However these are just statistical tests; they tell you nothing about how much actual entropy you're actually getting (cf. Debian). That said, it probably would have caught the Cryptocat bias.
thank you for this. I'm an empathetic person, but every morning I drive out of my driveway to work and look at the house across the street from me with three people who stay home all day in their house watching TV.

When I get home, their TV is still on and the other people in my building and I are exhausted from working and finally get some time for recreation, usually in the dark. The other neighbors say the across-the-street people are selling opiates. They should be made to do something in return for their government money: anything useful around town like cleaning up, repainting signs, babysitting- not just getting free government money to capitalize their opiate sales.

I love my job, but not enough that I would come here everyday first thing in the morning if I weren't being paid. That's why the Wikipedia example mentioned in the article is a _terrible_ counterexample for OP's point. First, Wikipedia is a _clone_, not an original work. Second, it's billions of micro-contributions, not people working 40-45 hours per week like the others in my building and myself. No one is that motivated. As posted yesterday, the theory of the Tyranny of Structurelessness is real. Only a small portion of society functions without leaders. And I admit that I am not one of its leaders (yet!), but I am comfortable for the most getting led toward productive efforts.

That's why I believe poverty is a failure of leadership. It's the inability or disinclination of leaders to herd those people into something useful. It's cheaper to pay them to stay home. It's got nothing to do with them being lazy, as someone else wrote. MOST of us are lazy, not merely the unemployed.
It of course depends on a lot of factors, but a number of Android devices have performance degradation over time, so it can't always be blamed on app upgrades. See for example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmon... and googling whatever specific device you have for the thousands of other people with the same problem.
Well, it uses jsonp to get the results, maybe the plugin you are using (can you tell me then name so we can check it?) has a problem with it.
I'm sorry, could you please rephrase that? I don't understand what you mean.
Google is a good name for a search engine, and easily usable as a verb.

Yahoo is pretty good, and was used as a verb for all of the 90s and early 2000s. IMO not as good as "I'm going to google that", "I'm going to yahoo that" sounds vaguely sexual.

DuckDuckGo and AskJeeves are terribad: "I'm going to duck duck go that"? No.

Blippex is better than ddg or ask jeeves, but still not too great. Coming up with a good product name is hard but is crucial for usability / spread through culture. Reminds me of blumpkin.
I suppose that's what I meant. A lot of people were paid to do very unproductive work.
Lame.
Asks for twitter account AND to install a chrome extension?
And it doesn't let you continue unless you do that?
And it has some 1990s style polling mechanism /install?retry=1 ??
Beh.
If you could help standardize the size of screenshots / images that would be a great value-add. Could be as simple as a cropping tool upon upload that offers an automatic crop selection matching dimensions of previously uploaded image sizes (or that of the first image).

E.g., if my first image uploaded was 300x400, make that an automatic crop-zone for subsequent uploads.
Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper
Its says it a t the bottom of the page, not a lot, more stats are here: https://www.blippex.org/status
When we all start using SSL for everything, perhaps that's a way to go.

If it's so simple, why don't we have a cookie icon up there so that it's visible all the time though?

EDIT: it's that way for non-ssl sites too - thank you - I learned something new - I may have to switch to chrome as my primary browser again. :/

It's still not quite as easy as I'd hoped for, because it's mixing cookie data and other stuff in the same popup panel, but it's a start. Having it be a cookie icon so it would be easier to know what you'll get when you click it (perhaps a separate icon) would still be better.
> But even if they did that. Why not just host your own blog if your writing is doing so well and making money?

It seems like they would be fulfilling the role of a traditional publisher in the print world:

* publishing on their site means you don't have to worry about drawing traffic
* the aggregation of a bunch of writers means that you have broader topic coverage
* aggregation also means you have more content, more likelihood of pulling in visitors

Just because your writing is good doesn't necessarily mean that your blog-marketing will be good and you'll be able to attract visitors.

And then there's the blog hosting and ad-revenue management that you've got to figure out. Sure, it's not that hard, and/or you can outsource it, but that's what the publisher does to earn their 30%.

(I'm not saying that self-hosting is inherently a bad decision, just that it's not the best thing for everyone.)
Great article - I particularly enjoyed the discussion of the relative distributions of different types of loops in the Go standard libraries.

Having said that, I thought the Go `readLine` using channels example was strange. The goroutine that provides lines to the channel actually still needs to loop over the lines, and in fact includes a DRY version of the loop in question:

for {
line, ok := file.readLine()
if !ok { break }
// ...
}

This is not to say that using an unguarded loop with a break is necessarily the best way to do this, but it seems to be the simplest DRY way to do this. I think he just wanted an excuse to demonstrate `range` with a channel.
They send out a signal saying that they want to change, that takes some guts to do so for such a big company.

I'm just curious about what actions will follow these words without any prejudice.
I admire your desire to pay writers, but why would I ever pay money to read your content when other places (including Medium, sorry) provide me with tons of content to read for free?

Unless you can line up very sought-after writers with name-recognition to bring in users at first, I think you may have a difficult time convincing enough people to buy into your model.

That said, I love the idea.. It's basically a magazine.
Nokia Lumia 1020 Specification with 41 megapixel camera
I'll bite. What I mean is people were paid a basic wage to do very unproductive (even counter-productive) work. So I suppose that's a little different than getting a basic wage without working at all.

At least that's what my USSR-born wife explains.
Interesting that the redesigned touchpad was designed (subconsciously?) taking cues from bootcamp css...
golf is an arrogant sport to begin with. it will be even more arrogant in a culture where a billion people compete for space.
I see Persona as the next generation of client certs with usable UX. People are working on this problem, just not within SSL/TLS this time.
True. I forgot that I often hit 30 seconds and then watch the microwave until 15 second have passed (or whatever increment I need).
1. PRISM?
2. Often best sites are the ones I spend the least amount of time on—because I got an answer quickly. Would hate to not be able to find those site. Seems link the traditional form of ranking should still be an important part of your solution.