skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the kind of thinking that could lead to better battery technology. Wouldn't it be amazing if the energy density of a system like this beat out gasoline?
Calendar is one thing that I miss. I still use both GMail and Fastmail. My fastmail account has basically taken over as my "personal" email while GMail is now the all the other junk account.
Sounds like not "the death of public key encryption" but the golden age of building technical controls into hardware/software which cannot be subverted by the operator, even in the face of a state agent with a gun.

Assuming the right tech is developed and deployed, this is going to be far better for everyone in a few years. Yes, it will be shitty for a year or two, but by 2020, if we actually have real technical security, it will improve security and trust for end users. Rather than "trust us", it will be "trust us, because...".
You could even get some additional engagement out of them:

o Send me an email if the price drops below $_____

o Send me an email and put 1 item in my shopping cart for me if the price drops below $_____
Where will you go to replace the open-sourced broken glass ?
"full of people" being the operative phrase here. People with power tend to abuse that power. This is human nature, and this is where distrust of government comes from.

People work in their own interest (however they may define that). Working in the interests of those that elect them is just a hopeful side effect of the democratic process.
Any encryption scheme worth using will not be identifiable by a randomness test. Block ciphers like AES are designed specifically to model pseudorandom permutations (or, rather, this was one of their design goals); being able to distinguish them from truly-random data would be a rather frightening result.

For more information, see "Is it possible to distinguish a securely-encrypted ciphertext from random noise?" at http://crypto.stackexchange.com/q/1646/2454
SAC Capital Is Indicted
BillGuard's iPhone app launched (MacWorld Review)
Insightful article!
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Arctic-sea-ice-melt-natural-...
They know it's there because when they 'unfreeze' it, the light continues on its path and they can detect it then.
Yes, the only reason I'd use __defineGetter__ would be a fallback for Object#defineProperty.

I'm curious if the IE8 limitation could be worked around, using something like:

if (ie8)
RactiveBaseModel.prototype = HTMLAnchorElement.prototype;
I wish you counted the officials you voted for and compared it to the number of governmental bureaucrats, agents, and other persons that are assigned, never elected, and often stay at their offices as elected officials change.

The number of non-elected officials is vastly larger than the few thousand elected officials people vote for.

Not that governments (and other bureaucratic bodies) never work in your interests. They always work in their own interests, and among these are self-perpetuation and grabbing more power. But as long as their other interests are aligned with yours, they could throw all their power at your cause. Should your interests diverge... well, good luck.
Privacy Protects Bothersome People, and isn't about me (or probably you)
Enumerate WordPress Usernames with a bash one liner
What nonsense. The United States, for all it's faults, is not a totalitarian state. Read a book, FFS.

Edit: Terms like "Totalitarian", "Fascist" and "Communism" have real, historical backgrounds. When they are casually applied where they don't belong, they derail the discussion (much like "Nazism", hence Godwin's Law) and prevent a real debate about real issues.
How to solve the technology challenges in the AdTech space
Show HN: designing an interface to sell the world's tallest residential building
The first thought would be to A) aggregate and priorities content that is online. Dare I saw a digg/reddit version of videos (youtube,vimeo,etc.) that would allow you to get the content and push it to your chromecast. This would work on video that is online, but this device doesn't address live sports/news events that are being broadcast to cable box and/or via antenna.

B) Sharing is care - another thought I had was more of integrating a raspberry pi or device to hook into your NAS or external hard drives that have videos/content from DVDs/Music/whatever - which you would want to stream. So maybe a raspberry pi to hard drives (usb) device that allows you to have all your content in 1 location but leverage some p2p secure protocol to allow for others to stream/request the content to their box before pushing to the chrome cast

Just some thoughts!
Mark Shuttleworth Reddit AMA today
It will be interesting to see how the course is designed, given that nobody has yet to really figure out the design and pedagogy of online teaching. It'd probably be worth checking this out.
This is some serious blogspam. There's not a single damn link to any actual information (the links for "Data Center" and "network" go to computer-system advertisements) and all other referential links go to livescience.com.

I'm not against aggregation or curation, but there is something especially galling about a science blog that omits what should be a common characteristic in scientific literature: the linking back to original data and sources.

The lack of this information makes this article pretty much useless. OK, so a "meltwater lake" started forming in July 13...is that unusual? Is it unusually early? Is it unusual in size? Who really knows, because as the OP says matter of factly in the next graf:

> July is the melting month in the Arctic, when sea ice shrinks fastest.

OK, so, is that an accepted fact of the seasonal cycle? Or is it unusual? Bad? Good? Who knows? Guess we'll have to click on the "Arctic cyclone" link for perhaps some more information, even though the forecast of such a cyclone doesn't answer any of the original questions about context, because the cyclone will purportedly make things worse than what they are now, but we just don't know what "now" is. If only there was a link back to the original data source.

And because of the Canon banner ad slapped over the lede image, I didn't really look at the image because it looked like a nice Canon travel ad.

Also, what does this mean?

> The Arctic hit a record low summer ice melt last year on Sept. 16, 2012, the smallest recorded since satellites began tracking the Arctic ice in the 1970s.

Is a "record low summer ice melt" bad? Good? Does low melt mean that the lowest amount of ice was melted? That seems good, right? Oh, if only there was a table of numbers or something to clarify things.
NeverWet? More Like OftenKindaWet.
* although they never quite finished building it...
Unless I am mistaken the throwaway PFS keys are derived from something. They just have to share it with NSA and they will do the rest.

(I am not a serious cryptographer)
They did mention that they're against duplication of information and why (under "They lead to duplication")
Social rental player Airbnb begins hiring in Dublin
Love it - great idea and great presentation. I only tried a few cursory searches but it was definitely bookmark-worthy. Kudos :)

I'd love to hear you guys talk about the risks of searching for "dicey"/risky characters/terms and how you protect your data/server from malicious searches.
Situations like these probably rarely produce a real "winner". It is going to be an arms race between those favoring personal privacy and those favoring government snooping.

Just keep in mind that government operates basically on an unlimited budget and has access to a wide range of harassment opportunities for non compliance in matters like these. This fact alone will keep them at least at a dead level with potential counter measures.
The challenge: to find, plan, build and release 26 MVP's in 52 weeks?
Hah, thanks for pointing that out!
11 Key Traits of the Best of the Best in Business
> Maybe we'd never have evolved from being pretty comfortable monkeys sitting around - why would we have evolved to breed, to love sex, and to make babies at all?

But we are here now, and we don't want to die. Death might have been useful in the past, but now it's the high time for it to go away.
Maybe they had multiple lasers arrayed around the outside to cause the condition of the crystal, and stopped them all at the same time while the light was in or approaching the center of the crystal (allowing for time for change to begin). Wouldn't the state change start at the outsides and move in?

I really have no idea whether you can actually reason about this stuff like that...
Well, with real property there are things like adverse possession [1]. This isn't exactly "use it or lose it", but it does contain the idea that if rights aren't exercised there may be implicit acquiescence to another's actions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
Ubuntu Edge - Mark Shuttleworth doing a reddit AMA
Ask HN: Best way to anonymize connection from a browser extension?
At Blippex (https://www.blippex.org ) we use browser extensions to collect the URLs and time spent on pages to feed our crawler for the search engine.

We don't want to know who sent this data, it should be as much anonymized as possible (we don't want to know the IP address, the browser, nothing, just the URL and the time spent), but what is the best solution for doing this?

I don't think it is possible to implement a Tor-client in Javascript, and including some shady proxy-server-lists is maybe not the best solution. We thought already about building up a P2P network, but not sure if possible as an extension, any other ideas?
That's actually the reason why people who are blocking new transmitters are somehow dumb. Less transmitters means higher peaks for people near one. Still you have to be cautious what studies you believe.
I am pretty old fashioned in that I carry a handkerchief and try to have more iced drinks. It works out for me well.

With my AC running all the time and a box fan my electric bill was still only $70ish dollars because our electricity here is dirt cheap. (Partially nuclear)
Rubber hoses don't scale.
'queue' was referring to chromecast's touted ability for, say, me to be able to send a video to the chromecast and then you to send one for it to play 'next'.

And 'download' was to make explicit the chromecast is downloading the content from the internet itself; it's not taking a videostream from the device as in the Airplay/"device-as-brains" scenario.

I'm not sure there's any difference between the phrasings in your second paragraph. I certainly didn't intend to imply anything different.
Please someone release an Ubuntu 12.x package for this. I was using Meebey's PPA for 3.0 but it hasn't been updated in a while.
I asked FastMail support about their US data center a few weeks ago, suggesting they offer an alternative. This was their reply:

"We DO plan to set up a non-US data centre, and are making progress towards this. However it is expensive and time-consuming, and we're not ready to offer this as an extra yet. We will definitely make it known when such an option becomes available."
NSA programs similar to the latest (broad interception of specific types of communications) were defunded and shut down during the height of the cold war. They had more to be afraid of than we do and still weren't willing to give the NSA this much power.

Also, before we go there, yes I am aware they also did a lot of other horrible things, but we're talking about the NSA and their activities as related to the fourth amendment right now.
plucking elements out of the DOM using selectors isn't far away from using global variables in C.

But at some point underneath all the abstraction, isn't that exactly what this has to do to even work?
The melting of the arctic sea ice is one of the strongest evidences for global warming / climate change, especially considering last year's dramatic new record low. However, if we're going to focus on the newsworthiness of this particular bit of information, there's some other important context that is often left out by those wishing to dramatize the northern melt as much as possible.

1) The current northern ice levels, regardless of how big the lake is at the North pole, are currently better than the three lowest years on record, though still historically low[1]. So you could be equally as truthful and informative as this generally uninformative article, just with an opposite spin, saying that the whole Arctic ocean's surface ice is at a three-year high!

2) The Antarctic sea ice has been above the historical average for over a year.[2]

[1] http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm
[2] http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.recent...
Lots of not up to date services were installed and activated by default. Exploits were abundant.
1) Most people around the world have some alienation towards their government (probably because most governments are willing to screw over/kill their citizens to maintain power if need be).

2) The United States Found Fathers pretty much all warned (and every child is taught in school) that the government should not be trusted (at least not with that much power).

Its astonishing that most American's allowed their government to become so over baring. If anyone read a couple history books as a child or young adult they would understand that one of the greatest concern for many of the nations leaders was the government become tyrannical. If it is a "peculiar American" trait, it comes from the literature, ideology, and moral fortitude of the original founders of the culture/nation.
In the book, he's talking about the entry doors in commercial buildings that swing closed. A la that classic Far Side cartoon.
It did get voted to the front page, so there is interest, but very few readers are able to add anything useful.
Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) made a similar move with his course on Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/course/behavioralecon
Is this real? This sounds a lot like fiction, all these things happening, the shady deliverer, the globes, the dog/hjob thing, crawling out of the window when feeling haunted, finding his boss jking off and giving him his freepass.

Anyway, this guy has to become an author.
I think yes, maybe much more. If you could plan for hundred years in the future, not for few decades, if you could realistically hope you have so much amazing things to see and do in front of you... I'd say it's much more motivating than knowing you already lived (for most of us here) 1/3 or 1/2 of your life, and things will soon start to get worse for you.
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I agree in spirit, but not details. The dress code is what's unimportant, not the person trying to manage the speakers.
Actually many studies proved that there is a natural long cycle in which artic slowly melt and then refroze. It happend that we'r in this period.

So it's harder to determine how much the global warming impact the melting of the pole, but we all know the answer.
> The architects are liberal ex-hippies who just do not understand

Money seems to have that effect.
When the launch craziness winds down, we plan to start a blog and nerd the fuck out. We had so much fun making this and want to help others get past the insane obstacles we faced while building a search engine.
I took a really boring job, and it was a terrible experience but I came away with 2 lessons
1. python can be just as terrible or worse than java when written by ex-java programmers
2. I can now understand and read some seriously scary large and ridiculously bloated code bases - which is a valuable and painfully learned skill.
/sarcasm -- (to be read in the voice of Sir Humphrey Appleby)

I, for one, rely on my government to perform all those vital, but tragically under-appreciated services done selflessly and at great sacrifice, and all for the public good. Our top Whitehall mandarins do so much to pre^H^H^Hdeserve their salaries.

The fabulous residences for the ambassadors, senior diplomats and other political appointees -- all those social events on the diplomatic circuit -- absolutely essential for our collective well-being. The unending sole-supplier cost-plus contracts given to the private contractors with the largest revolving door -- where would the nation be without them? The quangos and consultants, lobbyists and contractors -- our newly publicly-owned financial industry - the whole system -- not to mention the only middle class that we have left -- would suffer so very terribly without the kind patronage of a friendly state to steward and protect them.

/sarcasm
My Gmail account got a hacking attempt from China, anyone else?
Show HN: What's with those sirens? Toronto Emergency Incidents on a Google Map.
Actually, the points are about push/pull doors and the choice of fixtures placed as affordances to suggest the appropriate action by the user.
SVN-Book on how to write good FAQs
Who is "we". I sure as hell didn't vote for her, and neither did anybody I've ever known. I've never heard of Devizes and never met anybody from there. There's absolutely nothing I could have done to stop her getting elected.
America has a deep gun culture, and they have a deep "your home is your castle" culture. That's what the 2nd and the 4th mean to your typical American, and that's what they care about. The extension of that to "your Google Drive is your castle" is too abstract and theoretical. People largely don't care about non-visible impingements on their liberties (and arguably are justified in doing so). It's kind of a "what's the sound of one hand clapping" thing.

The 4th amendment is alive and well in America, at least as far as your typical white American voter is concerned. The most egregious violations happen to inner city minorities, who are so segregated from the rest of the population that the mainstream voter has probably never even met a black youth who has been stopped and frisked for no reason. And while you hear about no-knock warrant disasters in white neighborhoods, but it's extremely sporadic, to the point where your typical person probably can't say they know someone personally that it has happened to. And if you don't read the outrage blogs, you probably have never even heard of it. My parents have no idea what a "no-knock" warrant is. It just doesn't happen in their upscale Republican suburb.

But gun registration and licensing chaffes everyone. Even your most upstanding, law-abiding white American has to submit to a background check like some sort of criminal, and that makes people mad.
I just meant that in a personal way. That is: if you get into trouble, don't rely on the government to help you, for it is not too much willing to help, and pretty soon will be unable to. If you are in your 20s, no way you should hope the government will pay you pension once you grow old, for example.
And the feds can demand the keys to those other things too :P
Man, I wrote two rather long responses and then resigned myself to the fact that you are right. This is a very difficult problem.

The only insight I gained was that since billing isn't a realtime task, availability shouldn't matter in this case. IMHO that's why what happened was considered a "mistake".

Some thoughts:

Ideally, they should be able to structure their database so that a high number of transactions can be queued (up to the limit of virtual memory) and open connections shouldn't have to be maintained for each one. Then they could get rid of the notion of timeouts, as long as the master is up a high enough percentage of the time to handle the load. If it isn't, then even the clients would block when they fill up their virtual memory until the master catches up.

If they rewrite their code, they should start with the assumption that the master is normally down. They would have to solve the problem of two transactions conflicting on the client side. So for example, give each transaction a hash or digest that uniquely identifies it as a payment for a certain month. So if one client blocks for a day, and someone tries to start a payment on another client which also blocks, the master would resolve it when it comes back up by committing only one transaction for the hash and failing the other one.

If they get all that logic right, then they could fire off a payment and when the client server says it's queued, they could move on and not need a receipt for the commit. Although I just realized if the client server crashes, they have no guarantee. So they would have to start the transactions on 2 or more client servers, whichever number statistically ensures a high enough guarantee, or possibly all of the clients. That sounds like a lot of overhead at first until you realize that each transaction only takes a few k of memory to represent.

I think that possibly this points to a general solution. Give each transaction a unique ID based on its intent and context, and start it on enough client servers to provide a high enough statistical success rate. Make sure the clients store the pending transactions in nonvolatile memory so they can resume if the power goes out. I'm sure I've forgotten something but surely there is a way to solve this specific subset of problems so that companies could do a sanity check on themselves and avoid repeating history.
The author of the original article, Jonne Groni cites that video as the inspiration of his "theory":

> Several months ago, I watched a fun-filled video on Cracked.com that introduced the idea (at least to me) that all of the Pixar movies actually exist within the same universe. Since then, I’ve obsessed over this concept, working to complete what I call “The Pixar Theory,” a working narrative that ties all of the Pixar movies into one cohesive timeline with a main theme.
> a government full of people you vote for every four years

You mean a government full of people I vote against every four years, right? I actually don't vote any more, but back when I did, the people I voted for were never the ones who won the election. (At least not at the national level. There might have been a local one, though not any I can recall offhand.)

But even if my favored candidate had ever won, there are good public choice reasons to think the system as a whole would resist serving my interests ahead of its own. We have a "government by the government, for the government" - a vast barnacle feeding off the economy, trying to take as many resources as it can without killing the host.
'Affordance' helps designers flesh out a professional vocabulary. Sounds a lot more technical than 'honest', 'humane' or 'civil', all of which I overuse.

Speaking of civility, my touchstone design book is The Ice Palace That Melted Away, by Bill Stumpf (Aeron chair designer). The first chapter, on reflecting the wonder of flight in the experience, is the designer's answer to Louie CK.
Debian always think they know better than the authors of the software they're distributing (the worst, but by no means only incident being their key generation bug). When I maintained a linux program I received twice as many bugs from Debian users as anything else, because Debian repackaged KDE in a way that broke its autoconf macros. And anyone who's ever tried to follow a tutorial for e.g. Tomcat will know how radically Debian rearranges its files.

IMO it's not worth maintaining Debian packages of one's software or supporting it on Debian. Let Debian have their own packager for it if they want to, and direct support requests to them.