skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Tonido solution requires me to spend money to sync more than 2GB, and Plug does not.
San Francisco to New York in 45 mins? Maybe
Climate change = power outages
If you're going to roll your own CA to secure your infrastructure, get in the habit of also creating your own intermediate authority, esp if you're going to do some minimal client certificates. Then you can keep your root ca offsite and never used. IF your stuff get's compromised, then it's a matter of revoking all of your intermediates certs rather than starting over with a completely new CA.
Here's the great circle route on a map: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=svo-hav
Edited, original from https://code.google.com/p/keyczar/wiki/CppTutorial

keyczar::Keyczar* crypter = keyczar::Crypter::Read(location);
if (!crypter)
return;

crypter->set_compression(keyczar::Keyczar::ZLIB);

std::string input = "Hey Alice, here is Eves message: [quote]"+superescape(evemessage)+"[/quote] Your Bob";
std::string ciphertext;
bool result = crypter->Encrypt(input, &ciphertext);

Ooops because, http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/09/many-ways-to-break-s...
Well you answered your own question - it's slightly more convenient to you, but less convenient for the repo owner. That said, some projects certainly do all their patch/merge over email since before github existed (like Linux kernel dev) and have no plans to change that.

You've probably seen discussion with Linus Torvalds about the problems with "pull request" model for his workflow: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
The problem is Microsoft's short attention span. Their products are usually better than the competition, but either no one uses them and MS kills the product, or people start using it and MS lets the product stagnate until it's not better anymore (or significantly worse).

Windows Mobile was amazing, the best thing to ever happen to the mobile devices world. But it had grown stale long before Apple joined the market. Windows Phone debuted as a refreshing change in the marketplace and in some ways, ahead of Apple. And then the lack of continued innovation has stalled what little progress it was making. Then they killed Windows Phone (7) just to relaunch Windows Phone (8) as "mostly compatible".

The Zune software was miles ahead of Apple's spreadsheet program. Then they killed it. The Zune Pass was and still is miles ahead of anything else in the music subscription space. But it hasn't just stagnated, it's actively become worse. You used to pay $10/mo and get 10 DRM-free songs per month, making the subscription part completely free. Now that's gone. But still, Google Play Music All Access Pass is the only thing remotely competing with it.

I love Skydrive and you get massive amounts of space and massive amounts of integration, but how many times can they rebrand the same service? I started using Skydrive back when you would log into it using your MSN ID, then your Windows Live ID, then your Microsoft Account.

It's the ADD-style lack of focus that killed Sega, and Microsoft just rides that train for all its worth.
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here's a verbose ruby version:

def topx(str,x)
c = Hash.new(0)
str.split(/\s+/).each { |s| c[s] += 1 }
c.sort_by {|k,v| -v}.take(x)
end
What I personally don't understand is the reluctance to tax consumption as opposed to production.

From my point of view, it is easier to decide how much to tax a particular good or service e.g. a luxury car vs. a basic car vs. public transport. Another example would be a salon visit vs. a doctor visit. In addition, sales taxes are less personal (maybe even less controversial). As opposed to taxing "me" or "you", tax that "thing". Finally, sales tax seems easier to enforce since it is applied at the point of sale. However, I will admit that it's easy to avoid paying sales tax if transactions are paid for by cash.
Good call! The more you can use the principle of least-privilege the easier things tend to be in the long run.
I'm sensing a great circle joke with s/kerosene/kerosine/
"Austerity and Social Security cuts are common from elected politicians."

Because a non-trivial percentage of the population wants them, whether or not you agree with them. Who's going to vote to receive less money?
Surprised that no one has mentioned Asymco or Horace Dediu and his recent podcasts and blog posts:

http://www.asymco.com/2013/06/27/preempting-the-praetorian-g...
http://www.asymco.com/2013/06/27/the-critical-path-90-the-pr...

where he goes into a lot of detail about how functional organizational structure might be relevant to innovation in a large company.
Ask HN: Notifying users about hellbanning
If users are making helpful comments but seem to be hellbanned, what's the etiquette regarding notifying them?
Regarding this quote: "I’ve lived in a country that had a period of 'full employment' and now has 14% unemployment, and I don’t see how anyone can be so misanthropic to claim that those 14% of people just got lazier."

I hesitate to take someone's radical economic ideas too seriously if they either can't do math or does not know the econ 101 definition of "full employment".
for sustained power output of any duration, pedaling a fixed gear crank is about as good as it gets for getting power out of a human body. See Bicycling Science by David Wilson, MIT Press, for some interesting quantitative analysis. As an example to address your specific suggestion of rowing, compare a rowing scull with the Decavitator (MIT built pedal powered boat).

Edit: Corrected typo noted below - "skull" to "scull" - oops.
Why Starting a Company Is Completely Irrational
The new Kinect, were it not locked into the new Xbox and used for creepy advertising-related purposes, would be an amazing product.
Spurious correlation.
It's easy to get over 50% of the hashing power: just buy it. Bitcoin is especially vulnerable during technology transitions; e.g. in July 2010 a single Radeon GPU was more powerful than the entire Bitcoin network so you could have performed a 51% attack for $300 plus some epic hacking.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-clu...

It is very easy to sue under UK libel law, and pprune has been compelled to identify OPs before.
> Why aren't people going to vote themselves larger basic incomes every year?

Congress has that authority over their own salaries, and they haven't abused it.
That doesn't mean the designs cannot be improved... And once somebody releases an improved design, the older ASICs become far less useful.
Statement from Microsoft About Response to Government Demands for Customer Data
Put it in a structure where it doesn't take a simple majority vote to raise (real) BI. Let's say the US did it with a constitutional amendment, for instance.
Their backbone interface is not easy?
Good article, if for no other reason than the internet is littered with "self signed certificates are bad", which is true for most scenerios except for those pointed out in this article.
It actually works pretty well with Vagrant. In fact, I even have Vagrant in the sample config file to show how it's done. :)

https://github.com/fitztrev/shuttle/blob/master/Shuttle/shut...

Basically just do `vagrant ssh-config box_name_here` to get the port and identity file that you need to specify in the SSH command.
The claim that a 4-minute mile was once thought to be impossible by informed observers was and is a widely propagated myth created by sportswriters and debunked by Bannister himself in his memoir, The Four Minute Mile (1955). The reason the myth took hold was that four minutes was a nice round number which was slightly better (1.4 seconds) than the world record for nine years, longer than it probably otherwise would have been because of the effect of World War II in interrupting athletic progress in the combatant countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bannister
I don't believe so, I know we had to use the same pool workarounds that everyone seems to need due to this issue
It also seems to be avoiding some of the weather that past through the south-eastern states.
Those pro numbers are a little low. Although La Gazzetta's watt calculations have been somewhat questionable in the past, Tony Martin's wattage was given as 480 for the Mont Saint Michel TT on Tuesday.

Shane Perkins, and Aussie track rider who is probably the strongest cyclist in the world in terms of pure brute strength, has a maximum output of 2500 watts (my guess is that is a ten second effort, they don't give it, but his 60 second effort is certainly higher than 1100 watts).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8H6fU9VNgQ
I'm sure the NSA can hardly wait for XBone's to start showing up in people's houses.
"The telescreen recieved and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever the wanted to. You had to live- did live, from habit that became instinct- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
-1984, Book 1, Chapter One, George Orwell
Thanks for the link! Lots of interesting info:

Empty Weight: 55.1 kg
All-Up Weight: 130.1 kg
Flight Power (0.5 m): 450 W
Flight Power (3 m): 750 W

I wonder if those wattage numbers are estimates or measurements.
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Sure, easy for you and me. But I think for "normal" people this will be a net negative backup-wise. But I agree, possibly a net-positive privacy wise.
I hate it when people say LoL is Dota for kids. Even though LoL started as a Dota rip off, removing "hard to master" mechanics from it, LoL added new and fun mechanics and made a unique team game, hence becoming so popular.

Are Dota pro players also LoL pro players? No.
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Don't forget about Memoize(). Often it can be a better choice than ToList().
> Perhaps the most profound was that Microsoft has basically said "Oh by the way, the PC is dead." and by that tacit admission they fulfill the prophecy of this being the 'post PC' era

All this talk about the "Post PC" era is misguided, with people leaving out the elephant in the room.

It's not PCs that are dead - PCs are fine, you can find one in most homes and most people interact with PCs daily. This isn't going to change for a long time.

Something else is dying - the traditional licensing model for software. Software is becoming a cheap commodity, due to open-source, due to the freemium model on the web, due to piracy, due to the $0.99 or ads-enabled apps that are so popular lately.

By contrast, there's been a lot of innovation in hardware / devices. Skipping over the obvious innovations, like smart-phones with touch-screens, for example Samsung's Chromebook is amazing - a good looking ultra-portable with good battery, that does 90% of what people need and that's so cheap that you can replace it should you break or lose it.

Let's think about what the Chromebook is, because it's fascinating - all the apps you run on it are web apps. The just released Firefox OS does the same thing and I'm sure it's going to be a success. Apple themselves, before releasing their iPhone SDK, were telling devs to build web apps.

So where is Microsoft in this picture? Nowhere. Their empire is built on Windows and Office and without these in the picture they are fucked. And they can't rely on the current PC market for upgrades, because PCs are more than good enough, so people don't feel the need for upgrades, unless they buy based on sex-appeal. Many companies are still on Windows XP and Office 2003.

This isn't a "Post PC" era. This is the "Web Era". Furthermore, all the mobile app stores are just passing fads.
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Microsoft is not a telecom carrier.
So for example.

We have a root ca for everything. Then created an intermediate for the infrastructure (posgtres, etc). We also created an intermediate just the API, from which we issue client certificates for API access.

This is just for securing the connection to allowed users. Once connected via a client cert, they still have to do the proper auth with OAUTH, etc on top of that. Should the intermediate or client certs get compromised, we reissue an API intermediate, and new client certs. All of course, on top of OAUTH revoking, etc.
Secure Ideas will not be presenting at DEF CON this year
> Quinoa is a plant that produces a tremendous amount of seed. So you have potential, with intensive selection, to identify variants that have unusual characteristics.

Will it still be as nutritious after all that selection though? There was an article pointing out that when farmers select for bigger, shinier, more marketable fruit, it's often at the cost of actual nutritional value:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/breeding-th...
Do Your Product Managers Suffer From Featuritis?
Regarding great circles and flight routes, a nice feature of Wolfram Alpha is that it will actually display the great-circle route as a straight line, so you can see where it goes:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=moscow+to+havana

The projection is a polar projection about the origin, so great circles through Moscow are straight lines.
When you combine this with Backblaze/Crashplan as they suggest multiple times, you theoretically get the best of both worlds...
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What's sad that I'm neither surprised nor shocked about Microsoft doing this. If we hear the same about Facebook or Apple I'm not likely to be surprised either. If/when we hear the level of Google's involvement, that will be very interesting, because although a lot of people suspect that Google invades people's privacy, we've never really had any concrete proof or examples of it.
Marketing makes all the difference between being seen for a long time to come and just being another cog in the machine.

People who position themselves as something more than a person who writes code do better in the long run. I think developers forget that anyone outside of our bubble have no clue what the technologies are or what they do. They just want their problem solved.
>Actually my main problem with LoL is that you have to spend money to access champions.

No you don't because of Influence points. Playing games acquires you IP which you can use to buy champions. All champions can be bought with IP
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Don’t buy a $10 domain and other tips from HubSpot’s Dharmesh Shah
Substantially getting closer to zero assets is not really what I call society valuing education - but that is not your point. My point, though, was this: it turns out it's possible to provide incentives to people without manipulating a BI scheme - you just actually pay people money, like, you know, income from work they're performing. So there is no reason to assume that introduction of a basic income should be opposed because it would introduce unmanageable complexity as well, especially given that it would most certainly eliminate far more complexity.
> will enable him to do things like wash peoples windows

Until next year a new type of window will come that doesn't have to be washed.

> there will be more jobs for packaging

There won't. Humans are already being optimized-out of packaging by automated, self-adjusting warehouses and package machines.

> you can instead preorder your groceries

Being produced, packed and delivered by machines.

> It might as well drive to the nearby car cleaner

Which has been automated-out of his work years ago because how this job requires any skills cheap machines don't have right now?

Rest of the things you write about are things people will be able to do instead of working.

The point is, computers are not replacing particular jobs and creating new ones (of similar skill levels). They are replacing whole classes of skills humans have with jobs that have significantly higher requirements and significantly less open positions.
I'm not saying they are taxed on the amount of money they pay you. Well, there is Social Security (US) taxes that they pay but you could argue that's money that should go to the employee anyway if there was no such tax. I'm saying the company makes money that is taxed and then they pay you out of that money in which you are taxed for receiving.

Ok, granted, not all the money that the company has on hand that is paid into your salary is taxed as corporate income, but the idea is valid. I agree not at the same level as taxing profits and then taxing dividends which is essentially the same money.

I'm just going with the notion that it is not uncommon for money to be taxed as it is exchanged from one entity to another.
I suspect so. This has been true for everywhere I've looked - which has been all Manhattan. Even in the more run-down parts of Manhattan (coughChinatowncough) it's still the case.

My impression from coworkers is that it's the same in the "hot" parts of Brooklyn. Park Slope, W'burg, DUMBO, etc. Things may not be so bad further out though.
Replying to self, as I just noticed (awesome!) they included a power chart for the record flight.

About 1kw for the first 12 secs, then settling down to 600w for most of remainder. That's a boss ride, especially for a 70kg rider. Dude's a monster.
Sure. I think that speaks to my point; the compression side channel was novel enough that trained cryptographers missed it in Keyczar.

(Just don't use compression with your encryption and avoid the issue entirely).
if I have 2TB stored and only want to retrieve a single 10GB photo shoot one month (or even just a single photo), it would not be anywhere close to 5% (.5% in fact) of my total amount stored. The key point here is that we are dealing with TBs of photos that are there for safe-keeping and they have already been tinkered with and all photo JPGs needed have been exported and put elsewhere. This is just for RAWs and you likely won't need to access them again, definitely not 5%+ of them like this.
Haven't read it but I'd suggest it shouldn't. Some areas will be more desirable than others and you shouldn't compensate people more because they happen to live somewhere everyone else wants to.
See my reply to pjungwir.
I feel the writer wants me to feel bad about not working 100% of the time. What's so bad about procrastination, as long as we don't overindulge?
My understanding sit hat Congress has the authority over the salaries of the congress following the next election. If they abuse it too horribly, that's not going to include them.
Ah, having had a snide ad-hominem insult duly countered, retaliate with a series of non-sequitur malicious context-free imputations.
"Introducing BI as a tiny fraction of GDP"

OK, yes, but what's going to keep it a tiny fraction of the GDP? The BI's natural "lobbying organzation" is the entire public... not even the entire voting public, but the entire public. No current structures have that characteristic. For almost the entire population, $10,000 is a lot of money. Even people making $150,000/year are going to still appreciate $10,000, and we're now talking well above median.

If there was a lobbying force large enough to actually countervail the entire public's interest in voting themselves more money, I'm pretty sure it would not be hard to drum up a mob against them.

As I understand it, Basic Income's distinguishing characteristic is that everybody gets it. You can't use our experiences with things that well less than half the population gets to judge the effect it will have on voting patterns.

You can't just think about the first year of Basic Income's implementation. You have to think about the second year. You have to think about the tenth year. You have to think about the 18th year, when people who have never lived in a regime other than having BI exist start voting themselves. Are they going to understand that it's a bad idea to listen to the politicians promising to make it larger? Because there will be such politicians. Probably all of them, honestly.
Someone needs to come up with a good rewording - "YOUR PRIVACY IS LOW PRIORITY"?
Okay, but the other flight paths that are more "normal" are also estimated. And nobody seems to be questioning them.

I'm not saying Snowden is or is not on the flight. Just that getting all excited about a route deviation might be a bit premature given that there isn't a hard rule about where you're supposed to fly.
Fracking Wastewater Disposal Seen Linked to Earthquakes
>In a joint statement, Shawn Turner, spokesman for the director of National Intelligence, and Judith Emmel, spokeswoman for the NSA, said:

>The articles describe court-ordered surveillance – and a US company's efforts to comply with these legally mandated requirements. The US operates its programs under a strict oversight regime, with careful monitoring by the courts, Congress and the Director of National Intelligence. Not all countries have equivalent oversight requirements to protect civil liberties and privacy.

>They added: "In practice, US companies put energy, focus and commitment into consistently protecting the privacy of their customers around the world, while meeting their obligations under the laws of the US and other countries in which they operate."

Does anyone else get the impression that this is an attempt by the government to limit commercial damage to these companies that may result from the revelations and subsequent exodus of customers? I imagine that, while they're certainly lobbying for increased transparency, tech companies are putting a great deal of pressure on the government to take the blame for the programs and emphasize that the companies had no choice.
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Technically, they do not. The 27th Amendment (submitted for ratification 1789; adopted in 1992) states that any changes to Congressional compensation doesn't take effect until after the next general election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-seventh_Amendment_to_the...
'Boston Strangler' Albert DeSalvo linked by DNA to victim
There are several companies in this space. I was a research lead for smartcard access project for iOS platforms. We had to perform two way handshake using the certificates on the smart card. The most difficult part was to get data signed by the private key on the card during the handshake process.
Big Data Bootstrapping Beware