skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the scenario you describe above, the unencrypted contents of your email are now generally stored on at least 4 machines (maybe 3 depending on what the recipient's POP settings are), with only one most likely being under your control (the client you wrote the mail on).

The benefits of encrypting the message as well as the transport are mostly for dealing with that fact.
It's not computing per se, but BrowserShots has been doing that for a couple years, paying users for their browser time.
Finding Your Own Path - an Aikido Perspective
I'd like to mention that a good part of my (professional) social network switches to retroshare. And I'm forced to go with them if I want to stay in touch. :)
> Reason fruits are better than fruit juice is the fiber blocks the fructose from being metabolized, letting the needed glucose through.

Can we get a source on this? I'm very curious, because I eat a ton of fruit with a lot of fructose every day and this Lustig video has gotten me worried.
"There are two reasons founders resist going out and recruiting users individually. One is a combination of shyness and laziness. They'd rather sit at home writing code than go out and talk to a bunch of strangers and probably be rejected by most of them. But for a startup to succeed, at least one founder (usually the CEO) will have to spend a lot of time on sales and marketing."

Mike Arrington, before he was of Techcrunch fame, recruited us personally for the new company he had been hired as CEO/President of, Pool.com. Lest anyone thinks he does not know how to hustle he does. He can and was very persistent and determined with anything I threw at him. That ended up being a great relationship lasting many many years after Mike left the company. I feel fairly certain that a regular biz dev guy would have given up with what I threw at Mike. You may not have heard of Pool.com but they made a ton of money and were very successful.
It's said time and time again - some kind of demo or tour of a version of your product would be immensely helpful.

I don't know what your convergence numbers are, but I internet-guarantee they would be higher than what they are now with some sort of explanation/demonstration of what your service does.

If you're worried that people can steal your idea just from seeing a picture of it/seeing it in action, then maybe the fruit you're reaching for should be a little higher
Yep. Reminds me a lot of when it was fairly common to start your own forum back in the early/mid 2000s. (phpbb, vBulletin, IPB, etc.)
I would have found it useful to have had classes in {elementary, middle} school about how to not treat girls like crap. Do you think that it would be possible to build a program that addressed this problem?

Honestly... you have to change the whole culture.

The part of American culture we're fighting with is a culture of treating people like crap. In business, it's the idea that employees and relationships are commodities to be traded and exploited, and the vicious and nonsensical competitions over nothing (similar to Game culture) that nonetheless determine who ends up in charge and who gets fired. How could one expect people to be decent around sexuality when they aren't decent at all with regard to the other things they want (e.g. money, jobs, social status)?

We have a culture that glorifies people who break rules and trample others to get what they want. How is that not going to cause this sort of behavior?

American college-style hookup culture is so focused on acquisition, manipulation, the bad kinds of competition, and emotional immaturity that it can't be separated from horrible behavior.

I'm not religious. I'm not going to claim that there's some supernatural being that cares about human sexual behavior in such prurient detail as the traditional Christian God, because there (almost certainly) isn't one. I also don't think promiscuity, polyamory, and extra-relational sex are unhealthy for everyone; but they seem to be unhealthy for most people. Building a culture that glamorizes a sexuality that only makes sense for about 25% of people (wild guesses: 15% of women and 35% of men) is a recipe for disaster.

Where religion gets sexuality disgustingly wrong is when it comes to the letter, rather than spirit, of the law... and also puts sex under different, extreme, and often misogynistic rules as opposed to the rest of human behavior. Traditional morality is actually right on the basic idea (sex, for most people, should occur only in long-term loving relationships) but, unfortunately, tied up with bigotry (religious, racial, gender) and there are some really awful (and usually hypocritical) people who take sex policing (which has no place in modern society) to heart and go to the extreme with it.

To make it clear, I don't care what other (consenting, adult) people do as long as it doesn't affect me, and in general it really doesn't. However, the culture is sick and "hookup culture" is a symptom, if not a cause. It no longer affects me (30 years old, happily married) but if I have kids, I really hope they can come into a world where respect between the genders is so normal that these behaviors don't happen. But, I don't see that problem as separate from the more basic fact that most people don't respect each other in this society.
Not an expert, but in theory the CPU can detect specific contexts and change its behavior. If side-channel attacks can detect AES operations, the CPU can do an even a better job.
Yes. Thank you. Yes yay yes. I studied mathematics. I've been programming for 15 years, 10-or-so professionally. I've always wanted a "real math" explanation of monads.

They now make sense to me. Seeing why mu needs to go from T^2 -> T and the role it plays concretely WRT the list and IO examples makes it really clear to me.

God bless you for not using some crazy analogy like bacon or whatever.
The plan is to add a new control interface, and any new
features will probably only work with that new interface,
but the existing interface, including multiple
hierarchies, will continue to be supported until it's
clear that it is no longer being used.

So they will support it forever or until such a time that devs do the 'right' thing instead of the quick hack, whichever comes first.
While spam filers work well, posting someone else's email in plain text seems rude IMO.
Off-topic - Why is the top 1/3 of this page blank whitespace?
He's got you there.
They may be unknown to you, but that doesn't mean the causes themselves are unknown.

In order to find the root cause of a phenomenon, you must point out the phenomenon concretely enough - you need to know what you are diagnosing. That's the first step.

Then we need to look at cases.

It's foolish to try to say the causes are unknown without discussing these concrete matters.
I think you're being too dismissive. You may be tired of seeing this kind of post from fresh graduates, but just because the solution to their problems seems obvious to you now, that doesn't change the fact that lots of 18-year-old kids don't know and don't find out until it's too late.

That this happens to so many bright students is a waste of a lot of time, money, and human capital. Having considered it in the years since it happened to me, I think it boils down to a lack of mentorship in our educational system.
Not to say that I am even potentially capable of competing at the world level, but the exact premise the author describes happened to me. I won multiple contests at the university level, finished one spot away from going to the world finals at the region level, but after this performance got me noticed and a job at one of the listed companies, I spend no further time on the contests (granted in order to compete at the regional and/or world level again I would have had to have gone to grad school, which I had no plans of doing).

When I was actively working on improving my performance in the contests, I had to spend quite a bit of time practicing, and the practice is such a domain specific exercise that it really isn't that applicable to the real world. You are trying to optimize the following cycle: quickly read problem, identify type of problem, figure out applicable algorithm, find page in notes with that algorithm written out, try to write most concise possible code by hand, work with teammates to coordinate computer time (one computer per team!), submit, print, debug on paper, wait for feedback, if right move on, if wrong continue debugging on paper. Improving on each of these skills requires very specific practice that is often unrelated to any engineering skill. For example I saw many teams perform really badly because they couldn't manage the computer time properly. What a ridiculous skill to learn in 2013... sharing one computer between 3 people!

This just isn't that useful in the real world. In the real world you have a computer of your own, most of the things you are solving aren't algorithm problems, and you are trying to write readable and maintainable code. So basically the opportunity cost of continuing to improve in the contests was improving as a professional software engineer (IE my future profession), and the glory of potentially winning one of the programming contests just wasn't worth it to me.
It's not just that people are using webmail that's preventing PGP adoption - it's that PGP, specifically, is orthogonal to usability and convenience of email.

I, for example, am capable of encrypting my email but I actively don't care to. I'm in the "I don't, because the content of my email is just not that important." on the poll.

Webmail's prevalence may make PGP adoption more difficult, but I want more webmail prevalence and I don't care about PGP adoption and I'm pretty confident that's the way the world's going to go. Someday there will be something webmail-like which has encryption anyway and that might catch on - I'd even use it. In the meantime? People who need it can use special tools.
As a counterpoint, I'm fluent in mathematics but know virtually no Haskell. Your write up presumes the exact opposite and is therefore totally unsuitable for someone like me. :)

I mean that quite literally: I can make neither heads nor tails of your write up. It looks like a bunch of text with funny characters to me. This write up, OTOH, is written in my language using idioms I understand and relates it to Haskell without involving too much of the machinery of the language.
That's an interesting perspective, but I have to question how much value Microsoft research alone has added versus the many start-ups that Microsoft has worked with in bringing new technology to market.

Microsoft didn't invent the Kinect, it was developed by PrimeSense and brought to market by Microsoft (if I've got that right).

As the cost of much of the large technology plays comes down, and it can be done easier, I think we'll continue to see large companies continue to rely on start-ups to provide the initial impetus of ingenuity. I suspect it has always been that way. Don't forget Microsoft was a start-up which took advantage of IBM's scale to build their market advantage.
> None of the above.

I'd use encryption and try to convince others to as well, but I rely on email search too much. I'm sure a lot of people don't bother to 'tag' or 'label' their email, but instead rely on search to find messages with certain content in them. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see a way to have both with the server being unable to read the contents of the email to build a search index.
To be fair, there was only one paragraph lamenting that the system didn't bend to his needs. If you think that was the theme of this essay, then I suggest you reread it.
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Sure, but it is a valid position. It's what I would like to put, too.

I feel about as strongly about encrypting email as I do (did) about encrypting snail mail - not at all.
They can survive for a long time still but in the end they will be just another dinosaur. Apple was lucky, Steve came back and had ideas that changed the world in many ways and at the exact right time in history. I was at Apple a year before he came back and left thinking it was doomed. MS is still a strong company with a lot of money, but they have nothing that will change the world and their own future. The future belongs to those who can invent it but revolutions are hard to come by. What do they have that will give them a massive advantage over everyone else? Nothing I can see.
CMOV a Bad Idea on Out-of-Order CPUs
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Why link to something with no content?
Maybe then don't want a lot of people trying out their service for a single month? A higher entry barrier means more predictable usage patterns.

A similar "machine" on DO, with 120GB less disk, costs more than 4x as much (245 EUR) and likely has poorer performance due to virtualization overhead.
Unfortunately, it's a fool's errand.
One thing being left out of this discussion so far is signing, which is arguably just as important in many cases as encryption. There are a fair number of situations where you don't care all that much who can see the data, but you care a lot that it comes from the person you think it does. I think it's worth mentioning, since encryption and signing generally go hand in hand.
Maybe. And I'm curious to find out exactly how good the performance and connectivity of these boxes is compared to DO boxes, especially at these attractive prices. But these rather large per-box setup fees are a clear deterrent for a cash-strapped startup to even try things out.
I've seen 100% uptime from Hetzner for the 6 months I've been a customer (can't say the same for any of my other servers elsewhere).
German law provides a 14 days cancellation period. If you're from abroad read the T&C and try asking Hetzner support upfront about that.

Also, Hetzner has an auction platform for used servers without setup fee (of course not the latest ssd models yet):
http://www.serverbidding.com/
If Trayvon Martin Were White And George Zimmerman Were Black
Why should you be trusted?
Most people can't prove anything about themselves that is not subject to falsification - given deep enough cover, anything is possible.

Asking a blog author to prove a negative, which is impossible, is silly.
Argue with the message, not with the messenger.
Is Google Glass a Failed Product?
I was on an American team at the ACM world finals in 2004 and 2005 (and the top American team in 2005, which was a bad year for the US). There was very little pushing us to participate or practice, and I mostly did it because I thought the problems were more interesting than my classwork. Talking to participants from eastern Europe gave me an interesting perspective, though. It became clear that for American students, the prize was ~$10k (nice, but not a huge deal) and the cost was neglecting classwork. For an eastern-European or Chinese student, the prize was an American job. Some of those students even felt embarrassed about how hard their countries pushed these contests.

The indication that I've gotten from employers in Silicon Valley is that success in these contests is, if anything, overvalued as a signal for hiring. So the author is correct that the incentives aren't lined up to get CS students to participate in programming competitions.

I don't know whether this will be a problem for the US. It isn't right now, but you could imagine a potential future where US vs China in programming competitions becomes like chess competitions between the US and USSR during the cold war. I'm sure if that happens, the US will step up the participation incentives.
Show HN: How I Wish Scientific Papers Were Displayed
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You may not think that your email's that important but your unwillingness to care means you've inadvertently extended that judgement to everyone else who may want to correspond with you. This effect worries me the most about our modern, connected world.

NB: Just to be absolutely clear, I'm not picking on you specifically (and I suspect there are many people who hold the same opinion as you). I'm just trying to point out what I see as a problem with the "my email isn't important" argument.
Why A Symbol For 'The' Probably Won't Take Off
"it could leave 20 million to 40 million people in the Northeast without power — possibly for years"

Want to make a bet? If 20 million people are without power 2 years after a "space weather event", then I lose the bet. Otherwise, I win. (Considering how fast Cuomo was going to revoke the LIPA's charter because of their slow repairs after Sandy, I'm guessing someone will figure out how to replace a few transformers quickly.)

As for the flight diversions, I read that as, "if we had better warnings, we could just cancel the flight rather than use more fuel to stay within non-skywave radio range". Great! (Why do they use HF, anyway, and not satellites?)
Fair. Although the individual did post it in his slide deck to be reached for contact.
This is good work, I think it's a great idea.

I had some problems when I wanted to pledge earlier in that I just went to the bottom, put in my number and hit credit card and nothing happened. ( safari, with no obvious js errors in console. )
I just tried GPGTools[1]; I generated a key and set it as default in Preferences. I sent a test email with the "OpenPGP" button glowing. I'm prompted for the password, yet it's still sent as plaintext - it only adds a signature to the bottom of the email. Why doesn't it encrypt the text? Does it have to be email?

I also can't use S/MIME even though I got a certificate, I don't know how to use it.

[1] https://gpgtools.org/
For values of one where one equals three intro paragraphs and subsequently sprinkled through the essay, finishing up with a conclusion paragraph that is entirely unsurprising ('kids these days aren't getting the right skills')

It's signed off with one of the more banal slogans you could hope to encounter (the bit in bold).
dell tried something similar with the xps13 developer edition
But then if Lisp is the goal, why stop at halfway to it?
If users can't configure their Facebook privacy settings I'm not too optimistic about their ability to manage root certificate trust bits. It's a good start though.

Ideally OS/Browser vendors would drop compromised CAs. That happened with DigiNotar. It's not always an option though — the three largest CAs have a 83.97%[0] market share. Dropping any one of them breaks the internet.

Unfortunately a lot of people seem hell bent on destroying rather than improving on top of it.

[0] https://ssl.netcraft.com/ssl-sample-report/CMatch/certs
Sounds kind of like the option saying that the content is just not that important.
To use: click 'text' to sync text col to reference of figure in text, multiple times if there are multiple are multiple references, drag a figure, resize a figure, click 'reset', click a figure reference to sync to the figure col.

I know there are a few editors that read this, I would love to see better interfaces for your journals ;).
Mobile is usually more challenging than desktop.

On Android you can use K9 Mail [1] with your email and it will automatically decrypt PGP messages using keys within APG [2].

[1] https://code.google.com/p/k9mail/

[2] http://www.thialfihar.org/projects/apg
First Week With Ouya: My Thoughts
No. the reason Windows Phone is not dominant is because it came too late to the party, and offers no real advantage over iOS or Android. Both Microsoft and Nokia made the fatal mistake of announcing the death of their old mobile operating systems way before they had shipping WP devices.

In the meantime, everyone I know working in enterprise transitioned to Android and iPhone (except some on BlackBerry) - this happened as soon as those platforms had working Exchange sync, encrypted storage and remote management. To get any significant market share Microsoft now has to pay their way to it with extreme subsidies and massive marketing, or wait for Apple and Google to stumble, something they have yet to do.
To judge for yourself, I'd suggest spending a little time on Youtube, watching him teach.
I'm a customer of both and the author of two rubygems (one for the Hetzner API, one for the Digitial Ocean API). From my experience Hetzner is 10x faster, more reliable and more professional.

e.g. no changes to production APIs without notice, no radical product changes (as seen with NL based vservers at DO) and much more.

If you're looking for something in the US, you probably want to go with DO but for Europe only OVH can beat Hetzner (only sometimes). Both offer 1Gbit/s uplinks and direct connection to the largest and most important CIX in Europe (http://de-cix.net/)

Hetzner and OVH are no startups burning money anymore. They make huge profits and are in business for over a decade. They know how to build, operate and scale things efficiently. They will not be gone in a couple of years. They are not as fast in providing "new stuff" (think of OpenStack IaaS/a Cloud Platform like AWs) but I bet this will change, too.
The only opinion that matters: your customers’
All email is 'in the cloud' now...So Enigmail is too much of a hassle for my recipients.

At least Thunderbird and Evolution are being steadily developed now![I jest!]
I've been reading over-the-top warnings about this kind of thing for more than a decade. Hasn't happened yet. People have an overactive imagination for the apocalyptic.
I actually did. It's called fashion.gram (fashiongram.de) and it allows users to easily shop popular fashion content from IG.
s/Instgram/social networks/

I have seen such ad-hoc marketplaces for the middle east and south asia on other social networks being used to sell anything form used furniture, imported goods, or as boutique store fronts. There are even intercity ride share groups.
Homeownership, the Key to Happiness?
Most startups choose AWS for their hosting, where they're paying a ~10x premium over dedicated boxes. Budget obviously isn't the deciding factor even for cash-strapped new tech companies, not when we're talking about just 100EUR.
Math departments seem more interested in competitions than CS departments, at least at places I've been. American math departments are quite interested in the Putnam competition in particular [1], which has a kind of legendary status in the field that CS competitions don't, maybe because a number of the past winners have become famous mathematicians [2]. Where I went for undergrad (but not as a math major) they even offered courses to prepare for it, and scholarships for students who did well [3].

[1] http://math.scu.edu/putnam/index.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathemat...

[3] http://www.math.hmc.edu/putnam/
This is actual, cold hardware that will be provisioned for you if you buy it. I guess thats why there is a setup fee.
The only "SEO strategy" that works is being relevant so the relevant people link to you and having a technically correct site (parseable HTML, appropriate status codes).

Not even keywords on domains or URLs matter as much anymore after Google's Panda. Agencies are snake oil vendors and a great way to waste time and money.
Yeah that's double what they did charge for a 4s setup ($49 euro). I wonder why the increase?
Chicken little secretly wants the sky to fall.
You picked one example (Apple) that supports your thesis (technology is cyclical).

It is, however, an exception to the rule.

Computer industry is littered with bodies of slain giants: Borland, Sybase, Lotus, Wordstar, Personal Software (VisiCalc) etc. The rest are companies that stabilized into a success (Oracle, eBay, Microsoft).

It's exceedingly rare to make a come back (IBM, Apple are 2 examples I can think of).
Really, you're using energy I'm paying for [on the meter and/or in battery longevity] to check the primality of 6533? No, I think not.
I don't think anybody is talking about automatic A grades. This is indeed about learning — they're talking about whether teachers need to do more to help people learn.