skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Credibility doesn't matter, as I'm not asking for a confirmation from an expert: EGreg claims there is a security proof of some kind.
> Government leaving R&D to private sector(which is major source of funding even now, at least in the USA) would be the great decision.

The only people who claim this are those who have no idea what constitutes anything near blue skies research. Anything worth looking into for the mid to long term is going to have questionable profit potential and therefore not conducive to profit seeking.

There's a reason why most research uni's are public and the results are dumped out for industry to exploit, and it's not because it steals the talent by paying so well.

> You view them as undesirable, but your solution is even more government. However, the logical solution would be abolishing patents.

So your plan is to incentivize private R&D by abolishing IP. Hahahahahaha.
And I really believe this is the simplest and exact solution:

Rugg (2004) claims that words might
have been generated using a ‘Cardan Grille’ – a
way to deterministically generate words from a table
of morphemes.

(Gordon Rugg. 2004. The mystery of the Voynich Manuscript. Scientific American Magazine.)

If you know there was a reasonably fast way to produce the content which has exactly observed properties, why searching for some more complicated explanation?
I'm working on a new blog about product design: http://www.thomazz.com
google 'CTMU'
Just for reference, this is ACC, our attempt at removing frivolous tort suits (I personally think it's one of the best things NZ has ever achieved as a country): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_Compensation_Corporat...
WikiSubculture.org

TestTroop.com
then by bullying small countries out of letting him land
for re-fueling.

As far as I know Cuba was the country were a stop for re-fueling was planned on the way to South America.

I have read about pressure on Ecuador, but not Cuba.
Does that sentence mean that Greenwald (and probably Snowden and Wikileaks) have information that a stop in Cuba is not save?
You don't need motor skills for chess, but you do for e-sports. If racing is a sport, why is racing in a simulator not? The only difference is the lack of g-forces.
Ask HN: Can the NSA snoop on our (hosted) private repos?
This is just out of curiosity. The NSA does not clearly define what it takes to be an NSA "foe". Can they also be snooping on our private repos which are hosted on Github/Bitbucket (and hence, Rackspace/Amazon/whatnot)? Are users protected against any such access?
This is not a problem of regulation, but of general lack of money and/or agreement of social cost sharing.

And some other low cost services are offered to some of the poor in India like heart surgeries, artificial ankles, ambulances, eyeglasses, psychiatric services. With some money and growth they could theoretically be offered to everyone in India.
And how long ago would the idea that the NSA get call logs for every call in the USA have been utter paranoia? Or that they tap and record all international internet traffic?

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you!

If you random number generator isn't then all of your crypto is basically useless. Paranoid is the correct state of mind for these systems.
>Anyway, the point isn't that classical computers are just less powerful, the point is that they're so fundamentally different that calculating quantum phenomena can become actually impossible (as in, process will not finish before the heat death of the universe) relatively quickly as the size of the problem increases.

We don't know that, because not all algorithms have been invented. Furthermore, P=NP is an open problem.
It's a losing tactic for any one insurer, but it may be alright for a practitioner or customer.

http://watchdog.org/64814/ok-surgery-centers-cash-only-appro...
And that's really all there is to it. That's why you don't build secret courts, secret orders, and gag orders.
An expanded one of these with room for a couple of children would probably be useful. I know one person who cycles the school run with a 5 year old in a seat at the back of the bike and two younger children in a bike trailer.
How does an accelerometer tell someone looking at the data whether or not the wearer had an orgasm? This piece seems more designed to cause outrage than to actually inform anyone of the risks of sharing data.

Also, unless the device is capturing all the CO2 you exhale (or you live inside a calorimeter), it doesn't know how many calories you burned.
Facts and myths about Python names and values
I haven't fully automated this, but I've been using BBedit's batch regex to parse emails. Since these are emails coming from our iPhone app, they're all pretty generic in terms of payload (a few sentences). I just throw a months worth of emails into a folder, regex it, word cloud it, and then I see what people are yammering about the most.
A license to operate a newspaper? This sounds far fetched as there are no limited resources like airwaves being occupied.
I'm going to assume the "ultra hackable" is thanks to requesting '../../phpmyadmin/config.php' or whatever.

Oddly enough, I can't easily see any way to load a random (system-level) python module, thanks to including the 'app' package explicitly in the load_module - IIRC you can't resolve imports outside a top-level package.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned WebID yet:

> http://webid.info/

WebID works (I saw it demoed at a meetup earlier this year), though I'm not sure how popular — or unpopular — it is.
This is a tough one. The thing is that for small companies, bad hires can be disastrous for any position key to the company's execution.

For instance, hiring a bad dev can be very costly. There is all of the time/work required to find, onboard and provide knowledge transfer, the real expense associated with the employee (i.e. compensation), and the fact that it generally takes time to determine it's not working. In that time the product hasn't moved forward as it could have and the company is out of a lot of time and money. And, frequently, it is the principals who are taking time away from building and running the company in order to try to hire/train. So, it's an even bigger disruption to the company.

For, say, a bootstraped company that has a small dev team (or the founders are the only dev) and not a LOT of money, this can be really painful or game ending. There is a real choice to be made between rolling the dice that you'll find good talent, or pushing forward at a slower pace, but without the disruption of hiring/training and without the additional expense.
You can't compare the US price of HFCS to the world price of raw sugar as it doesn't count the absurd US tariffs on it. When you count these in I'm pretty sure that HFCS is cheaper than sugar in the united states.
Microsoft Rx -style operations https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/L4nEVho555k
I believe you can add 'nordrand' to your boot flags to turn off the kernel's usage of it.
> So, you're not free to speak.

But everywhere has some practical limits on free speech. It's a question of where the line is drawn. Shouting 'fire' in a crowded theatre, threatening the President, you get the picture.

Of course we're not all going to agree on where the line should be drawn, and some would like there to be no line at all. You can't please everyone.

In France and Germany, it's illegal to deny that the holocaust happened, but it's not in the UK or Spain, for example.

> Because somebody else gets to decide what's "hate speech".

We decide what is hate speech, through our elected representatives. It's far from perfect, but it's the better than all the alternatives.
Lots of comments here. Not sure if it is already covered or not. So I will be brief.

DDG, hushmail, etc. Doesn't really matter does it if the NSA gets you at your internet connection and reads what you are doing from your service providers trunk?

You can DuckDuck and Go and hush your email. If they are grabbing it at the point of your modem and your internet provider, the illusion is you are secure but really you are not.
What does feature creep look like?
Galaxy Note 3 : le prochain super smartphone?
Ah. It looks like I've put the wrong configuration in the blog post. My fault. I shall update the blog post with the correct configuration.

Here's what we are currently using:

ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH:!CAMELLIA;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
It almost sounds like you're looking for a parental figure more than anything. If you're at the stage you're at, I would suggest building up existing talent and establishing authority and a process for that authority. Better to do that now while things are young before you hire in some flashy top talent guy with perfect teeth.
Well, it looks like he wrote the Go TLS package.
Repeat after me:

Malpractice premiums are not correlated to malpractice claim payouts. Period. 2000-2006, the amount collected in premiums rose 120%, while over the same time frame the amount paid out to claims decreased 14%.

"Defensive medicine" is non-reality-based, head-up-ass flat-out expensive crap, and you should stop practicing it and start questioning why your malpractice provider charges what it does.
I few days ago I was accused here on HN of being homophobic, you know, like in hating homosexuals, because I expressed my opinion that a child needs a mother and a father.

In other news, here's an interesting discussion on humor: http://philosophybites.com/2011/04/no%C3%ABl-carroll-on-humo...
Where does the blog style come from ?
I did Hack Reactor. AFIK, it's got by far the heaviest workload (and highest tuition) of the above mentioned programs and it paid off beyond my expectations. I was looking for two things—hard skills and some social proof due to having made it into such a selective program.

The social proof didn't happen. The program was just too new and employers hadn't even heard of it yet. Fortunately, the hard skills I gained from the course were substantial enough that it didn't matter. I actually leap-frogged past where many of my acquaintances with CS or engineering degrees were. From what I understand, the current Hack Reactor classes actually are getting some significant name recognition along with the skills.

By the end of my course, I had serious interest from Google, Groupon, a Japanese game company, a cool consultancy doing cutting edge stuff with Ember and a couple of start-ups, one of which is building on Meteor. I went with Groupon, mostly because of the team and the tech stack. Another factor was that it's well enough known of a company that working there will pretty much ensure my liberal arts degree won't be held against me in the future by any but the most credential-obsessed companies. Only Google offered more in that regard, but I didn't get the impression that people there were too into JavaScript, or any dynamically typed languages, for that matter. It's possible I just caught the wrong interviewer, though.

Hack Reactor did well for me in several areas. Coming into the job at Groupon, I was being able to contribute right away and I was already familiar with the technologies in our office (Rails, Node, Backbone, CoffeeScript, CSS preprocessors, git, etc). Another great thing has been the network. I know tons of motivated smart people who are now working all over the bay area. When I set out to do a start-up, I'll very likely be teaming up with a fellow HackR Alumni. The final big help has been just a general solid CS grounding. Having already implemented hashes, trees, prefix trees, map, reduce, once, memoize, etc. has definitely been helpful. We certainly didn't learn everything, but we learned enough to have some idea what we don't know and where to go to learn more.

As for difficulties, I'd say the biggest was not being fully prepared for large codebases. It definitely took more time to get oriented and figure out where various data was coming from at work than it did on the projects I was working on at Hack Reactor. It was also a little jarring to see how OO-focused the programming world at large is, since I had been working more with functional maker patterns than pseudo classical patterns. Writing a scheme interpreter in JavaScript was one of the things I worked on as a personal project.

I don't know Java yet. That definitely causes a bit of friction when looking at general CS resources online. I'm not terribly concerned though. I'm pushing onwards, taking coursera classes and doing my best to maintain some of the momentum I've carried over from my 80 hour weeks at Hack Reactor, within the framework of a more balanced life.

tldr; The program was fantastic. It's already paid for itself and the network is amazing.
Why would anyone share his health data with other people?
Encourage your supermarket to carry Pepsi Throwback alongside their real Pepsi.
What should Oracle do for Java EE 8?
It's the equivalent of old school investing; sit on the money until a really really good investment comes along; in the mean time you miss lots of good opportunities because you don't have a good framework for managing risk. Angel investing changed all that. Maybe there should be a greater move to angel employing; a small commitment up front until traction is proved.
Don't forget PerlHP. ("PHPerl" also seems to exist twice over at least.)

http://wakaba.c3.cx/perlhp/
Looks amazing, only I see a typo in one of their labels. In the main video at 0:31 it reads "Highligted text". Missing an "h".
This almost makes no sense. Hidden Services exist to hide the location/identity of the server. You gain the same anonymity by visiting ddg.com via Tor. It's cool that they're running a relay though.
Greenwald was criticized for saying that the USG "should be on it's knees begging every day", a clearly inflammatory thing to say. To act like the criticism is the result of some grand government conspiracy is a bit much.

There are plenty of people outraged by the substance of what has been leaked who also don't like the idea of a) great harm coming to the country or government or legit intelligence operations, or b) a 30 year old person stuck in a Russian airport who has appointed himself the ultimate arbiter of what is leakworthy and what is not, what programs are legal and good and which are illegal and evil.

On another note, the idea of a dead mans switch that harms the government of Country A is probably an attractive target for other governments that want to harm Country A.
a stop in Cuba is not safe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/06/25...

In order to get a better idea, do read the whole article, here I just give one small sample: "Cuba agreed in 2006 to stop its practice of harboring American fugitives."
There are business licenses, code inspections, and changing zoning requirements. Not quite the same as a spectrum license, but there are still many ways for a government to exert pressure on a newspaper.
Among issues, I can point to two:

Usually I should scroll down to the end to see references and then back to top to continue reading, life could be a lot easier if readers could parse references and show them in the sidebar or split the view so I could scroll down the bottom pane.

I can not repeatedly select a portion of text, move to toolbar, click on Annotation, select Highlight, in order to highlight a sentence! I wish readers had better support for keyboard or at least used modern UI/UX techniques.
Did anybody look @ http://leitl.org/

This email could just as easily be the musings of an insane person, which is what's suggested by the contents of the website.
Wrong!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript#Exotic_natur...
Suspecious username for a plant-critique "blabla". If you had read any of the CA posts you'd both know why that is the case, and also how easy it would be to test.

I can give you a private/public key, certificate, the CA (and password for that) and some traffic I've sniffed while interacting with a webserver, using the forementioned key and certificate.

Good luck decrypting the traffic. The only thing you'd be able to succesfully do is pretend that YOUR server is actually mine (and proxy from your server to mine). That's an undetected breach, and an MITM attack.

OPs point is still entirely valid. You got my private key from ME, not the CA, and even then you're unable to decrypt the traffic (past).
Sorry, I'm too tired to continue this bullshit conversation in a different tone, so here's a somewhat angry rant.

EGreg said "provably not able to access your information", which means that there's a proof of some kind. What the fuck does "prove it to yourself" in your comment mean? That I'm now responsible for writing the security proof? That you acknowledge that no such proof exists, but I can write it myself?

Oh, you probably didn't mean "prove", you meant "ensure", as in I can ensure that the traffic between Mega and my browser is encrypted. What does this say about security? Absolutely fucking nothing!

It's a known fact that Mega is NOT secure. Even if you store your key locally, and they don't know it today, they can do the fuck they want with their web pages: next time you login, they can send you a piece of JavaScript to decrypt everything, or read your key, or... just do anything! If you're looking for an example, this happened with HushMail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail).

Anyway, I didn't really mean to ask for a proof, because I know that there's no security proof that "Mega, LastPass and others" are not able to access my information, I was looking for a way to encourage EGreg to do some research and declare that he was wrong, because his claims are fucking dangerous. I certainly didn't expect replies like yours.
My bad, turns out I was completely wrong:

> There was no overall difference in total caloric intake (sugar plus chow) among the sucrose group and two HFCS groups.

Technically, I was right in that they didn't control overall intake, but they did prove that they didn't need to control overall intake so my alternative hypothesis was refuted in any case.
Alienware M11X R2. It's not really advertised, I just noticed the option in the bios one day - http://www.techmonsters.com/DellTraining/bin/Foundation2010/... . It's ridiculously useful when travelling - if I don't use my laptop I get an extra 2/3 days worth of battery for my phone.
Use-case apps
The same people who think myfitnesspal should be a social network? The kind of people who think a fitbit is a competition to see who walks the most? Without putting my tin foil hat on, there is a reason this shit operates the way it does.
You're really not helping improve the conversation by posting sarcastic responses like this.
As others have mentioned: it's a mis-marketed project, supposedly for hackers, yet there's not a single compelling reason for a hacker to choose this. It's time to scrap this project and move on to something else before anymore time and money is lost; you had the freedom to choose any customer in the world, since you weren't developing with one in mind, and the product still falls to meet a need.

The website is pretty horrible, as others have mentioned. The imagery is completely irrelevant, and links just seem to go to random, unrelated pages. 12 days ago your site says you intend to treat this as a serious product... and now this?

The editor itself does look pretty interesting, although I haven't had the time to directly play with it. My recommendation would be to focus on just that, figure out what it I'd you actually want it to do, and then go kick starter, open source with donations, or some form of hosted editor service or premium license.

Good luck!
Introduction to Objective-C
The fitbit, at least, only needs a recharge once a week or so, and it charges fairly fast. One could imagine just plugging it into their laptop for an hour or so while sitting on the couch, and that's all it really needs.
Yeah well. Are there any free market industries in the US?

Financial sector, energy, car manufacturing, IT, education, news, health care, law, home buying, defense - those are all in one or more ways deeply subsidized or maintain such close relationship with government that it's difficult to say whether they are part of the government.

Take Google: A single company that somehow manages to sit on almost all searches, most of the online add market, a good chunk of the email market. Yet it avoids being split up in antitrust cases.

Google started as a government sponsored research project that was spun out from a government subsidized institution (Stanford). Then it raised tax subsidized financing (venture capital). It has what seems to be a free flow of information with different government institutions such as the NSA.

Google doesn't really pay tax on most of its world wide income and it has some 20,000 government granted monopolies (also known as "patents").

Is Google a private company in a free market?

Exactly what US industry should health care emulate?
Rather you than me... I set something up using mailgun which has been brilliant, both on the receiving and sending side. For small scale use cases like this it's free too. I send pictures of receipts from my phone to a special email and mailgun POSTs to a tiny Heroku webapp which parses the subject line for amount, currency and date and puts into out accounting software.

You get all sorts of goodies like nice attachment handling and automatic stripping out of quoted text which aren't exactly hard but fiddly.
Just assume that the government has access to everything online, including "private" content. Even if they don't have direct access, they can get it with a warrant. With the patriot act and fisa, they can get warrants pretty easily, so basically you shouldn't put anything incriminating online, even privately.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Did you consider any other schools? Did you have prior experience with code like when you decided to apply?