skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I must admit to feeling some hesitation before writing this post, as I fear it may come across as self-indulgent. My motivation in writing it was to communicate how useful self quantification can be. It is a lifestyle change that I believe some can benefit from, and one that can reduce the chronic stress from which far too many of us suffer."

It seems more interesting than useful. Lots of analysis, not much benefit. Maybe

"The only hard targets I currently have is to spend >10% of time writing, and >15% of time reading, which I have hit. This was something I struggled with tremendously before, and I only succeeded when I started tracking work type specifically."

is a benefit, but it's fairly representative in that it's something of a goal within the system rather than an external benefit.

Perhaps there's guilt relieved by realising that a tedious week spent organising a mentoring group increased the amount of interaction as a mentor, but what are the benefits beyond that?
Thanks. Will reply your email tonight.
I feel bad, but I tweeted my complaints about the acquisition last night. I wish nothing but the best for Topfunky. He's done SUCH an amazing job. His screencasts are visually appealing, the audio is perfect, the presentation is amazing. I personally preferred the $12 ala carte model. Geoffrey would make these nice little preview videos for each of his broadcasts. Often I'd buy the video based on that alone (even if I wasn't sure I was interested in the content - Elixir is the most recent example)

While I DO think subscription based courseware has its place. I hate having to create an account (with a Captcha - can we PLEASE get past that?) AND enter a credit card. They say it's to protect them against piracy... but think... how does that work? Their videos appear on torrent trackers and they know it was you and charge your card? (I admit, I have no idea)

I have a degree in graphic design, so I've always appreciated just how much artistic flair Peepcode had. I find Pluralsight so much less appealing.

I feel it now leaves a void. Maybe Ryan Bates will start doing more than just Rails.
The light is transformed into a "spin wave", an excitation of a certain atomic angular momentum describable by your good old e^i*theta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_wave
Too bad Goldman is not going to be next.
And what if they say "That data was obviously innocuous so there must be another encrypted partition"?
While I agree that this the way to go, I grew up in the neighboring seat and sadly tech issues are never going to get a foothold there due to the demographics and local political class - if you need a pop culture reference, Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz is a practically a documentary about the area...
Considering this Russia, what about polonium poisoning?
Yes, they could share the keys and/or key matter used for every session with the NSA, and the NSA could then decrypt the conversation. Or they could just send the NSA the plaintext logs.

There is literally no way to keep a conversation secret if one of the parties involved is compromised, because you're talking to a compromised party!
I hate auctions now, too. Instead I just shop around for the best deal.
Totally agree. If you pause to think about it, for a conference as large and expectedly bureaucratic as this one, asking for a last-minute ticket for your wife is no different than asking for one for a colleague. It's something that should have been taken care of more than 30 minutes before the talk.
As someone who supports his own WordPress plugin, FAQs are like sanity pills. You can only repeat yourself so many times before you get tired of it, even if you have a canned response.

Having an FAQ allows you to let the user help themselves, which most are willing to. If not, you at least have an answer you can point them to.
Will check with you.
me too.
thanks :D
Corporations are creatures of the government; they can't be any more of a pure tyranny (or authoritarian regime -- tyranny really ought to be reserved for rule by military force, which while certainly common in top-down authoritarianism, is decidedly less common in corporations) than the government sponsoring them (they can be more of a current tyranny/authoritarianism than the government as a whole, but they can't be "pure" tyranny unless the government is, since any democratic capacity in the government can be applied to its control of the corporations it charters.)
I suppose that's a good point.

I still enjoy watching politicians squirm :)
> It seems to me that the scientists could have simply stored the energy from the light for a period of time

Strained analogy: It's more like recording a hologram for a minute and then playing it back. It's a one-minute buffer for light, the same way we have video buffers, but for real life.
If we're talking about powering your home, sure, wind and solar are a great answer, combined with improvements in insulation and appliance efficiency.

But if we are talking about advanced science and technology, we need ever-increasing power density. You're not going to power the Large Hadron Collider with wind and solar--and certainly not its successor. You're not going to power fusion research with wind and solar. You're not going to power advanced transportation or manufacturing with wind and solar.

No battery technology in the world can compete with the power density that is possible with nuclear energy. And if it could, it would be just as dangerous as nuclear.
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Use a cylindrical mirror and make it spin fast enough, possibly with movement along multiple axis to spread the energy out over as large an area as possible, and return the beam back to the sender?
If you do, please write a comprehensive guide on how to do this. I eventually gave up trying to figure out how to setup a mail server.
As soon as his leaked piece on Google+ appeared, it was pretty much to be expected that he will be terminated (use whatever softer sounding euphemism you like). You can't just throw feces at your coworkers in public view and expect to be kept in the company.
At some point the browser must decode the content to render it on the display. So this decrypted content on the client machine could be cached, which leads to my confusion on the subject. I clearly don't understand something here.
It seems to me that the effective price would never fully bring it up to the money market level, and that difference is what makes it worthwhile to choose that strategy?

In the example of (a), there is no middleman, and the set of buyers becomes biased toward those who are dedicated over those with more money, because they intentionally distributed the effective price over multiple...payment channels (? I'm not much of an economist). Edit: actually there is a middleman; I recall the Wii launch, where I knew a guy who waited in line just to sell them on eBay. But still, there are "true fans" waiting who might be priced out at market value.

In the lottery style where tickets go on sale at x time and it's a free-for-all, some significant percentage of this round of sales will go to people that "deserve" them and get to enjoy a reasonable price with negligible non-monetary cost. Yes there will be some money lost to scalpers, but this can be reduced by forcing resellers into an official exchange channel where the original seller gets a cut.

Burning Man is an event where demand has exploded over the past few years and the supply cannot keep up. The organizers are also very concerned about getting the right people the tickets without jacking up the price. They have evolved a somewhat complex multi-pronged approach with lotteries, high-price presales, and a homegrown exchange system (STEP), where I believe they mandate reselling at face value.

edit: On second thought, I have neglected the cost of the people who expend time/effort and miss out completely. But, I still think there are benefits to pricing below market value with a sufficiently robust strategy.
This is very neat. I think this kind of time tracking can be very useful, especially for people in professions that are very self-directing, and provides a mix of short-term and long-term projects. I'm a PhD student and I've been playing around with setting up my own systems (http://reganmian.net/blog/2013/03/16/unobtrusive-time-tracke... and http://reganmian.net/blog/2013/03/29/time-tracker-one-week-o...).

A bunch of the things he noted resonate with me, like noting the difference between time spent in the office, and time spent actually working (even when you are not procrastinating, there's all kinds of little things taking your time). I've not been as rigorous about setting goals and then sticking to them, but I did set up a "traffic light" system, aiming to hit 4 hours work on my PhD every day ( a typical "long-term" goal which easily gets buried under short-term commitments and things you can "cross off a list").

I also have data that can let me show how long I work on things on average, at what time of the day etc, but I haven't dug into it yet... I see some great posts about quantified self people (like Sacha Chua http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/07/quantified-awesome-adding-...), but either they tend to use totally off-the-shelf programs like RescueTime, or they tend to write their own solutions... I'd love for the QS community to come up with some standards, for example a standard way of storing time-use data, and then some common libraries - I'd like to continue logging my time in whatever way works best for me, but if someone makes a really neat way of visualizing time spent vs length of chunks, I'd love to be able to run that analysis on my data too... R would be one nice place to host that.
It's not that they don't need an FAQ, more that the site is basically one giant FAQ. There isn't really an effective way to organise that much information into clickable navigation, particularly as the users will likely use the site less than once a year. This is why they're focusing so much attention on search. This way they can monitor what people are searching for (some real detail on the most FAQs) and make sure that the results match up.
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That strikes me as a particularly reductive interpretation of an article that covers a lot of ground. Certainly it's entertaining and funny in a dry, cynical way to point out and laugh at the fact that M. Bachmann is a strong supporter of the NSA and their surveillance policies. Still, if she's bringing the same critical mind to bear on this issue that she sharpened on HPV vaccination, I wouldn't hold it against anyone to be suspicious of her facts and motives.

I do think the flocking of these republicans to the NSA's (and by association Obama's) defense indicates the source of a bad smell. You're right, even a broken clock is right twice a day and having the conservatives who once opposed you rush to your defense doesn't automatically mean you've changed all your opinions. On the other hand it does strike me as a good enough reason to be suspicious.
This is what I was thinking.

This sounds more like certificates are broken than public key crypto.

Yes they can come to me for my private key, but that's a different issue, then at least they're coming to me and not going to some intermediary "trusted party".
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Thanks, not sure how I missed that!

Signed up, checked it out.
Azure is , as far as I'm aware, still run by Microsoft (a US company).
Yup, had one in January this year:

IP Address: 60.166.238.248
Location: Hefei, Anhui, China

Annoying thing is that the mail didn't say whether they managed to access or not. (What's the point of resetting the password if they just spam dummy hack attempts at all addresses?)
ngmin doesn't work with r.js. My response was about using it with AMD modules. I know there were a few efforts to get ngmin/r.js working together, but last time I searched around I didn't see anything promising.
Is there any content filtering?
When I went on to Image Locator, then "See an example" it will search for imgur.com.
The first page of results shows 'thebiglistofporn.com', 'entensity.com'(Not sure if it's NSFW, but it looks it from the thumbnail.)

I know it's not too much of a big deal, but porn thumbnails wasn't something I was expecting to see on a websites example page.
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It sounds like they treated you poorly, and I'm naturally inclined to side with people who would abandon the exposure that a set of TechEd talks would bring in favor of not ignoring his wife, but...

...did you make your wife's inclusion part of the contract? To the folks you dealt with on site, it may have seemed that you were springing something unexpected on them at the last second. "Hey, my wife gets in free to take pictures or I walk."

Yes, it should have been trivial for them to allow that, but is it possible you came off as a bully? I wouldn't have made the same decision as they did, but I can imagine a scenario when bringing up your wife in the 11th hour would have gotten my ire up a little.
Do you have a source for that photo? I can't seem to find the original.
Its funny. Quantum Mechanics was invented about 90 years ago but the first cool applications are coming out today.
Only if you ignore some of the operative words in the announcement: "virtually", "Just the right angle (about 35 degrees)".

For this to work as a storage medium it would have to work at an angle much closer to 90 degrees to avoid excessively large equipment and there would have to be a near perfect conversion both on the input side and on the output side (which as far as I know we currently don't have).
He expected his wife to be able to stay and see the talk that he had been invited to give and had gone out of his way to go to.

You seriously think it's unreasonable to get a +1 to your own talk?
https://developers.google.com/cast/
We do not filter content, but thanks for letting us know about that thumbnail on the example page.
A logical conclusion to this is that if/when governments start forcing people to supply them with their private keys, they will also start forcing companies producing encryption software to include backdoors.

At this point, I'm thankful that we have Free Software. With access to the source code, forcing the insertion of a backdoor is futile, since somebody else will fork and remove it. With Free Software, we'll still be capable of running our own encryption in a way that government intrusion will still be detectable by ourselves.

Unless, of course, governments then ban communication about backdoors, or instructions on removing them, or distributing source code altogether.
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For intended purposes like the "Quantum repeater" I believe it does not matter if the photons really stopped or wobbling in some very small space. For the repeater they need to time shift photons. (IMHO, I have no idea what I'm talking about :) )
My school (University of Dayton) also had a course which taught heavily from this book. I think the title was something like Ergonomics, and it was part of the Computer Science program. It would pretty enlightening, and I still have my copy somewhere at home.
No, it's a win because the government is not the only, and in most cases not the worst, threat.

Insiders (like Snowden and Manning, ironically) are one of the biggest threats. Being attacked by non-USG outsiders is a major threat ("hackers", state sponsored or not). Your business partners being hacked, or having lax security, is another threat. USG is probably near the bottom of the list of actual threats for most people, in terms of frequency; they just have the most amazing resources.

If the "evil NSA boogeyman" is enough to get people to finally care about security, that's great. It's like people preparing for zombies by buying water, freeze dried food, radios, shotguns, etc., when in fact they're at the same time preparing for the far more likely earthquake or civil insurrection.
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Are you suggesting he was assassinated?
In order to provide any forward secrecy, the PFS keys are generated randomly for each session. They are not derived from the certificate holder's RSA keys.

A snooping agency holding the private key of, say, Google would still need to intercept each connection and act as a man in the middle. Simply knowing the RSA key (either beforehand or afterwards) is not enough to decrypt PFS sessions.

*edit: Google would still be able to collect and hand over all session keys ever used to communicate with them. The NSA might then use those session keys to decrypt any corresponding session.
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I bet you could cancel a fake reservation one second before making a reservation on behalf of someone else. The effect would be the same as reselling.

Honestly though, I don't understand why this needs to be available over the web in the first place. If your restaurant is that posh, I'm sure you're not going to lose business by making people call in their reservations. You'll still need to have someone answering the phone anyway, so it's not like you're saving money by cutting an employee. Whatever meaningful benefit having an online reservation system might have provided is clearly lost in the absurdity of this situation.
> Given that, HN, how can we now kill hollywood/use live video in a new way/make journalism new again?

Is Chromecast even relevant to all of those?

1. Hollywood: Chromecast doesn't change the production costs of high-end movies, so doesn't seem relevant to the main function of Hollywood. There's already vast hordes of lower-end video content produced outside the Hollywood studio system and its foreign equivalents.
2. Use live video in a new way: Chromecast might be relevant here, in that it might extend the potential reach of internet-based video apps into the living room. So I see some potential there.
3. Make journalism new again: video is demonstrated to be a less effective medium (and, in many studies I've seen, a medium of negative impact) for actually informing and conveying understanding of journalistic content -- and Chromecast doesn't really do much to increase the reach of textual content, which is the more effective medium.
The first answer is really so well written it was worth yet another upvote.
Is CGI really photorealistic?
Maybe it would be a good idea to provide the reason why things are done differently. He seems happy to accept the Debian standards despite disagreeing with them. Help the guy (and the rest of us who has asked the same question) out.
Well, yes, there is a strong correlation between alcohol consumption and cancer rates. I am not sure if it was ever tested on animals to prove that it directly leads to cancer, but in observational studies this is often pointed out as a culprit for high cancer rates.
So he actually quit his job at Google in that speech, and not just some cat-picture project?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQEHtvNsfKE

I think projection, with a contact lens with some sort of polarizing effect so that you have to be looking right at it to see what is being projected is the ticket. However, who knows if that is even possible.
I don't know if this is quite public knowledge yet, so: human-assisted onboarding is sort of catching on at a lot of SaaS companies in the B2B space, at price points which are a bit north of the top end of typical 37signals/etc apps. (Squarely in the zone for this new product, though.)

A lot of people find it very, very difficult to get started from a blank slate. Automated onboarding/email sequences/video tutorials/etc gets you to a point, but it still leaves guesswork in the process and (candidly) one can always blow off a computer but blowing off a person who has been talking to you for weeks is socially harder to do.

This also allows you to do basically a hybridized product/consulting model, since if (without loss of generality) Jason Fried is spending 2 hours for you talking about your business' challenges as he gets you up to speed on KYC, that's essentially equivalent from the customer's perspective to "Rent Jason's brains", but (crucially) the majority of the economic activity actually comes from the product whose use is enabled by the mini-consult rather than through consulting itself. This lets it scale to the moon. (Also, as every consulting company at scale will tell you, you can have Jason Fried's insights on your company actually delivered by an understudy. 37signals certainly doesn't lack for smart people who understand the 37signals playbook.)

This is currently giving me fits, since I haven't figured out a great way to deliver it consistently for non-enterprise accounts given that I'm 14 time zones away from many customers, but it's one of the big things I'm working on currently. The word on the B2B SaaS grapevine is it works very, very, very well at moving $X,000 to $X0,000 per year SaaS accounts.

I'll blog about this if I ever manage to systemize it successfully. (As usual, the plan is 1) Throw stuff at the wall and figure out what works. 2) Write down what worked and execute against that plan. 3) Pay someone to do #2. I'm currently somewhere in stage #1.)
This is all great and stuff, but how does this person keep a roof over her head while she does this little thing that's so cute and inspirational? How are the bills getting paid?
I changed my password, but like you said I can't verify if they accessed my email I have some sensitive documents and emails that I'm going to back up and delete right now
> Yes, I agree it's not necessary to get the basic information across but it was definitely a lot more fun to write that way!

I agree; for me, "conversational tone" is usually much more fun to write, and much more fun to read. I find it a sign of a good understanding of the topic if one can phrase his explenation in a conversational tone. You have to know your stuff well to be able to correctly express complicated ideas in simple terms.
Maybe. But I wouldn't count on it, and you're better off assuming that you are monitored instead of depending on a server location.

To me the most compelling argument would be seizure laws. If you are one of those people who use the mail server as a data store then it would be worthwhile to have it in a place that would resist attempts to grab the hardware.
I like the woman who is doing a much of different pages to teach herself about development.

But this feels half-baked...

Real products, even MVPs, take time and effort.

If you want this to be interested require that each MVP goes through Jason Cohen's qualification process first:

1. Find 10-20 people who will agree give you money before you build it.
2. Get a price and make sure they are still on board.
3. Build the MVP.
4. Collect the money.
5. Rinse and Repeat.

Otherwise, you are just going to have features pretending to be products and hobbies pretending
to they can be a company.

http://blog.asmartbear.com/vetting-startup-ideas.html
It's possible that your patrons are not interested in bidding, or otherwise participating in libertarian economic fetishism.
Funny how the rational, clear-headed solution to economic problems always turns out to be "fuck poor people."
Pretty sure what the poster meant was that if you have a file with random noise on the hard drive, that itself signals that something is encrypted.
I hope it works out similarly to how proliferation of public wi-fi led to increased adoption of https.
Indeed. There are probably many more who are highly qualified in many different fields. Qualifications and expertise isn't what gets you the job as a politician. Votes do.

The original post was more jovial than serious.
Picture having been left outside while your SO goes to figure out what's going on. She tells you she'll be right back.

Two hours later, she comes back. "Sorry, I had to give my talk. They didn't give me a choice. I hope you didn't get too bored standing out here waiting for me."

Personally, I applaud the author for realizing that there was, in fact, a choice - and then choosing it.