skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Balderdash! How many people are in the baby boom generation? And you paint them all with one bush? Do you do the same for people of a particular race? Upon closer inspection you will find that few boomers are responsible for your woes. Your parents maybe, but most of us are as powerless as you. "Industrial mindset"? Poppycock! I look around and I see many young people serving up enormous amounts of their private information on public forums. Boomers have nothing to do with this. Quit obsessing about "boomers". It's such a useless distraction.
Very excited for and proud of the entire Watsi team!!
The Atom is Intel's weakest chip. It is designed for super-low power consumption, which means that they cost very little money to run. (so usually, data-centers like running them, because they don't use much electricity. Naturally, the savings are typically passed onto the consumer).

The Atom is Intel's line of chips designed to compete against the iPad. It is still fully x86 compatible, its just slow. Roughly... the speed of a Pentium 4 or so.

Current generation Atoms are 32-bit only, which means 4GB maximum RAM (not an issue for smaller webservers with only 2GB).

Atoms tend to be best for I/O limited tasks. If you do video streaming for instance, the vast majority of your CPU power is going to be "wasted" on waiting for the Hard Drives and the Network. So the Atom makes a good, cheap CPU for that kind of task.

For tasks with tons of computations, (ie: game servers), the Atom is woefully inadequate.

You can purchase an Atom computer for ~$165: http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-ZID60-U. So play around with the performance yourself, and see if its enough.
The real story is Yelp's filtering algo. Notice how all the 1 star reviews are filtered out, including this guy's?

After about the 3rd time of going to a 5-yelp-star place and it being terrible, then digging in to see all the negative reviews were filtered, I had enough. It's why I don't use Yelp anymore.
I wouldn't call this a weird rider. The NSA is a DoD agency, and the NDAA is one of the tools that Congress uses to regulate the DoD.
This is really cool, but does it scale?

I tend to think of Watsi as sort of a one-off, at least right now. Do you think it will become easier to make philanthropic ventures if funding them becomes similar to funding Venture companies? I mean in a way it already is, except you write a grant instead of pitching a capitalist.

Does this pave the way for more non-profit venture companies or is this just a one-off?

EDIT: Massive congratulations to the team at Watsi :). Job well done.
Open-source hardware for embedded security
Github hiring story
I almost feel like this is the one field where if you know enough to explain it, you are working in the field, not in the business of explaining it. If that makes sense...
It's obvious you're not a married man ;o)
And removing publicly available software crypto from the most serious export restrictions, at roughly the same time.
But still, everything continues as usual.

Nobody is guilty.

Nobody did anything wrong.

And money to the program continues to flow.
The monitoring program is costing an awful lot of money, the data centers could be doing real work streamlining government processes and making the administration more efficient. We know governments, corporates, sys admins will snoop and should be objecting to our tax being used for a probably useless effort to process this raw data. Discuss tax rather than privacy, everyone cares more about that.
Quite necessary - 100 x 3600 x 24 x 30/8 = 32TB / month.
Your front page has some overlapping text on my mobile browser. Screencap: http://imgur.com/tqiLdZy.png
Where are these located? I'm wondering how bad latency from the U.S. would be...
agree about the credits. i know you're trying to monetize, but forcing me to pay for searches (and view more results) is a bit on the ridiculous side. there are better ways to monetize than that.

from a UX perspective, any time you _prevent_ a user from doing something, ie, you present them with the option to view more things and when they click on it, it says you need to pay to view the things, that is BAD UX. better UX would be NOT presenting the user with the option to view more, but where they would look for this feature, have a link that says something like, "want to view more results? upgrade to our premium plan!" Much better UX because as a user I'm not tricked into thinking I'm getting something and not having it be delivered.

but yeah, unless you're more explicit about the credits thing, it's going to be your downfall. i like the design and the results that i got from my one search, though :)
Your math is wrong by an order of magnitude, it's ~32TB.
Where do you get two coffees for less than €2.99?!
My advice would be to make it a monthly competition and add in a donation box (to increase the possible prize) that would increase quality as well as interest.
Amazing for the disk space.

Anyone recommends the company? Never heard of.
Terribly written opinion piece; the author apparently forgot to kill all the strawmen they erected, let alone provide any kind of serious treatment of the issue. Despite the author's attempts to shroud it in a veil of balanced reporting, this article is unworthy of discussion on HN.
It speaks of it in the final paragraph, referring to it as popular mythology.
I use Munin on my VPSs, and it shows the steal time which is nice. I don't typically see it showing up other than a 1 pixel line on RamNode. Hopefully that doesn't change under higher loads in the future.
The max input size is for one message. It's effectively the "block size" for RSA. You can send multiple messages using a single RSA key (and in fact pretty much everyone does that, otherwise you'd need a new public key for every message). RSA is a complete crypto system, you don't need any additional ciphers. You do need randomiziation (e.g. random padding).
What with all the security in Vegas casinos, stealing the real one is probably easier.
That VAT costs more than the service. Hard to believe.
Can you name any cases at all where farmers were sued for cross-polination claims? As a farmer in the industry, this shouldn't be hard, right?

There is one notable example where a farmer intentionally and willfully planted seeds that he knew were Monsantos, but I'm unaware of any pattern of litigation against farmers for the actual unintentional use of Monsanto seed.
Sweeeeeeeeet
This very brief article doesn't really cover much at all, only covering that we generally know that a GMO food won't kill you if you eat it. While there are a minority of individuals who needlessly worry about this, this isn't really the issue. It certainly does not address the key issue of whether or not Monsanto should be leading the field.

The real concerns involve sustainable agricultural concerns such as pesticide resistance or overuse, gene contamination, and freedom of research, and specifically if Monsanto the company has really shown themselves to be the most responsible steward to retain near-monopolistic control over the execution of these sensitive practices, as well as a vast proportion of the world's seed supply.

For lots of in-depth discussion on these issues, I recommend this series by the Union of Concerned Scientists: http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-... Articles specific to Monsanto are here: http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-... http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-... http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/our-failing-food-...

Disclaimer: I am not a farmer, or a scientist, or someone who knows anything at all. I am merely pointing out that this article says nearly nothing useful, and referring to a series of articles by a reputable, if not opinionated, organization of experienced scientists and researchers.
A narrowly averted disaster
The article is conflating stuff and is just FUD. You don't need certs to apply asymmetric cryptography.

As I understand it, the NSA could insert itself as a so-called "Men in the Middle" (aka MITM Attack). See this SO question for a far better explanation than I could provide: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14907581/ssl-and-man-in-t...
Why does time seem to slow down in moments of extreme danger?
I can't speak for the OP, but where I live in Spain it's not uncommon for a standard coffee to be about... €1.2 to €1.5.
Roubaix (North of France). Try pinging productism.com and report the ping from where you are?

Data center list: http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/data_centre_selection...
Astonishingly page doesn't work in Opera.

And why all the effort in a "defund NSA" site to find out as much as possible about visitors (e-mail, zip code) and link them to Facebook, Twitter and Google, the second-tier sinners in this scandal?

Just provide good information at a pre-defined URL - I'll get around to it if I want to.
Looks like you get "Western Europe Datacenter (GRA)". And it ends up being $13.74 USD for 3 months.
This is all very interesting. So far it seems to be used to show me adverts for stuff I have already bought.
quarterly growth numbers. Making $1B is no longer good enough if you made $1B last quarter.
Five Charged in Largest Hacking Scheme Ever Prosecuted in US
Another interesting use may be for an always-on BitTorrent Sync node. I have a Raspberry Pi for this purpose, but the 500 GB of storage space is much better than the 16 GB SD card I currently have.
And looping back to the tin-foil hatters, many of us have called into question why all browsers have, over time, decreased their support for self-signed certificates. There are modes wherein Firefox will not even offer the "proceed anyway" option [1]. Conspiracy theories abound, but the browsers' marginalization of self-signed certificates has always struck me as devious.

Yes, please do alert users that self-signed certificates are potentially sourced by nefarious organizations. But in most cases, they are used by small companies and individuals to simply encrypted content from trusted servers. So allow them to be permanently trusted.

Perhaps we will see an increase in interest in web-of-trust alternatives?

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435013
Thanks for the quick feedback! As a quick update, I threw together a todo app that also describes some of the basic functionality of Falcon. Check it out: http://jsfiddle.net/stoodder/2ZX52/20/
Pretty certain, like most hosts, they won't allow the storage to be used for remote backups. The 500GB is usually only for data/files being served/processed by the server.
Ask HN: What are the best marketing resources as a developer running a Startup?
I think it's important to do both. We can't solve political issues using only technology, but it can also be helpful to build our infrastructure in a way that would make it cost-prohibitive to outlaw these technologies.

For example, we could deprecate and eventually disallow TLS ciphersuites that don't provide forward secrecy, just like we did with single-DES, the NULL cipher, and "anonymous" (unauthenticated) encryption modes.
The wikipedia page on the subject seems to say that potential energy does increase mass [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-energy_equivalence#Meanin...
This is excellent news. I've had a VPS on Linode for a couple of years now and the only thing that was really lacking was the disk space.
In my opinion they are number one in France.
Their European network is nice too. The US one is rather new, I have no idea but be warned that theses new servers are not available at their American (Beauharnois, Canada) datacenter.
How about "If you don't, neither do we" to avoid the repetition?
Atoms predate iPads by approximately 11 billion years. They're the chips used in Windows-based netbooks, nettops etc.
With an encrypted volume, how on earth would they know?
I can understand the police officer acting as a conflict-resolution mediator, but unless the officer passed the bar exam I don't think it's appropriate for him to give what could be misinterpreted as legal advice on civil law.
This blog post is about a donation!

Allowing smaller donations to be targeted and fully directed at specific goals is an interesting idea, but somebody needs to figure out the right words to use when discussing it.
This kind of thing could encourage privacy advocates to go after the private sector about big data practices. It could turn into a big problem for some companies.
Go to a good English greasy spoon rather than a posh coffee shop.
"Since 2012 the company has been classed as the largest server host in the world"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovh

Don't know if the Wikipedia is correct, but I know them (I'm in EU).
> Current generation Atoms are 32-bit only

Some lines of Atoms since mid-2010 or so have supported x86_64. The Sxxxx "server" atoms released at the end of 2012 are all 64-bit-enabled, for example, although they can still only take 8GB of RAM: http://ark.intel.com/products/series/71265

I agree that this is mainly interesting if you're I/O-limited. Most benchmarks show a "regular" recent-gen Intel CPU performing around 5x-10x the Atom, so if you're CPU-limited, even a low-end VPS that gives you an average of 1/4 share of a core will probably outperform sole tenancy on an Atom core. But a high-contention VPS in most cases will give you much worse I/O performance. Also, the storage space and bandwidth quota here are much better than with a comparably priced VPS.
Between ovh datacentres as well? If I have servers, in ovh canada, uk, and france?
That's the great thing about software, especially Free software - all it takes is a handful of us to make systems where strong security is transparent and enabled by default and it will proliferate to all the regular people.
"Tens of seconds of light storage are needed for a device called a quantum repeater, which would stop and then re-emit photons used in secure communications, to preserve their quantum state over long distances."

That's quite a lot of latency. Assuming many repeaters, does that mean a quantum-encrypted ping from one side of the world to the other might be measured in hours?
Ahh, that's an interesting approach. I could see someone giving away a free product to get this data (as AddThis did with their, only I don't believe it got name/email/company details)
My lowest rate is $100/hr, as a single-person consultant with almost no overhead. Some people charge lower rates for different types of work--like documentation--I see no sense in it, since it's still tying up my time and that's what is being bought. My preference is to tinker on my own projects and not work for other people; the client's job is to entice me away from my preference.

I charge extra for anything I don't want to do. It's $300/hr for VB6, Crystal Reports, or MS Access stuff. I know the client can get someone else to do it cheaper. They frequently tell me as such, clearly missing the point that I want them to get someone else to do that shit. There is no way that stuff helps my long term development.

No, I don't stay 100% active with these prices. I have a steady 20 hours a week of work at $100/hr. Does that make me more or less rich than a person working 40 hours a week at $50/hr? Hard work is for suckers.

People complain about me being expensive until I release the first milestone. After that, they tend to shut up about the price. What's cheaper, a $25/hr developer from Croatia who takes 6 months to deliver the project, or a $100/hr developer who takes 2 weeks, with the added bonus that it actually works?

Something that always bothered me when I was a working stiff: I was always evaluated for pay based on how old I was, whether or not I was married with kids, and whether or not I owned my own house. No, no, no, you pay me based on what I can do, not on what I need. That's why (amongst many other ethics-related reasons) I consult now.
Indeed. Rich Hickey's 2-part presentation on "Clojure for Java Programmers" was a really slick presentation of a Lisp. (Focusing on the 'code is data' aspect from the beginning (at least once he starts talking about the language specifics themselves, he does spend a while motivating dynamic languages) rather than talking a lot about just higher order functions and macros and so on. He goes over the evaluation model and its difference from a Java/C++ model, he shows how to interop with Java... It's just a great talk.)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P76Vbsk_3J0

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb3rurFxrZ8

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/adorepump/clojure-an-introduction-...
There is this, if you haven't already seen it: https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-03-29-firebase-bindings-f....
This conference doesn't seem to be about tech anymore. Glad people are spreading the word, so MS can control & fix the damage. Tech conferences should be cool, interesting, and educational, all regardless of what you wear.
These are physical, dedicated servers. You get full control over what's going on.
Does the author have any blog post or plan to write one about this part: "After some recent success of Bayesian methods in machine-learning competitions"? It will then be easier to translate Bayesian Inference to real world problem for noobs like me. I was trained in mathematical Bayesian Inference in an Econometrics class but I never did anything practical with it.
If they are not halted and then let go, but instead bouncing back and forth, there's a chance that when you open the Cristal it may exit by the other side.

Also the imprinted image may be lost or fuzzier.
Facebook shares up 28%, Investors anticipate more revenue from ADs
The worst video game ever made
love the idea of a donation box
OK, I should have written "everyone that matters"; the point is to have a critical mass of expensive-to-eavesdrop communications, so that the NSA cannot routinely exploit much more than teenager gossips traded through Facebook.

Moreover, even if only the 10% best informed people use PRISM-proof communications, it's a safe bet that NSA's alleged targets (whatever the current definition of "terrorist" might be) are among them, so the argument that they're doing that to catch "terrorists" doesn't hold water anymore.

I believe the tech community is concerned about this, because it threatens the robustness of Internet. Today, nobody in the business can pretend with a straight face that top-level certification authorities are trustworthy; so I expect the next generation of security protocols, the successors of the (transparent and enabled by default) SSL, to treat governments as opponents.

I also believe that companies will change their security patterns, e.g. stop trusting American third parties such as Microsoft if they have competitors with political connections in Washington.
Anyone try this yet? Do they include any sort of remote console access?
I couldn't disagree more.

There are all sorts of pieces of useful information about a site/product/etc. that simply can't be structured well. That aren't important enough to belong on an about page, or whatever -- where each individual thing is something that only 0.5% of your users will care about, but each thing is a different 0.5%.

Implementing a FAQ cuts drastically on the number of e-mails you receive, which all keep asking the same rare questions -- the "long tail" of questions and content, which aren't important enough to users to be in the main about/etc content.

There's no reason your FAQ can't be structured -- it should have headings and subheadings. Although a lot of information really is just inherently one-off, and hard to structure. That's reality, not laziness.

There is very much a need for a kind of "miscellanea" long-tail about page, which is exactly what a FAQ is.

Plus, some people find the Q&A format to be extremely useful for locating information, much more so that structured product pages. I personally learn a lot from reading FAQ's from start to end.
True that he doesn't care per se, but as I doubt he's going to quietly retire to a Hawaiian villa in 3.5 years, he does have to gauge who thinks what of this presumably unexpected issue & backlash.
Ask HN: How do acquisition taxes work?
I'll probably end up asking my lawyer this as well, but I thought others on HN may benefit from having this info, as I couldn't seem to find it.

Assuming a standard SV startup that's incorporated as a Delaware C corp and assuming that I've done my 83b election filing (http://ayrlaw.com/what-is-an-83b-election-and-when-do-i-make-it-part-1-with-graphic/), like a responsible founder, what taxes are incurred when I sell my company? My guess is that personal taxes are the main hit here, but is this considered income or capital gains? Any other considerations?
Watsi could use an API, so that I can rig code up in (for instance) contests to submit a donation every time a player finishes.

That would also have the beneficial effect of potentially randomizing some donations across the patient portfolio.
OVH is a very large dedicated hosting company. They now have a nice location in North America (Montreal) as well, with tremendous prices. They generally get solid reviews. If I had to peg them, it'd be a B rating or 8 out of 10. Weak customer service, but you can pay a modest fee and get immediate attention. Their hardware is solid.

Whether you use them or not is probably down to three issues: do you need managed servers and rapid response from a tech inside the company; if you need US based hosting, they don't offer that, but the Montreal location gets great speeds to most of the US; the listed kimsufi servers are obviously located in Europe.
Exactly what I would use it for but then I realized it wasn't free and to me its not worth the money.
112ms from Michigan, USA.
That's a fair view.

My view is that I'm sure the garbage gets emptied, and you're left a dirty bin in the fridge. Maybe it's not the cleaniest thing to do.

To me having this guy complain about the (in my opinion) small things he is complaining about makes it obvious there aren't more urgent health concerns with the place. I would definitely eat there.
Tens of thousands caring out of a population of 350 million is 0.03% of the population. That's kinda tepid. But should Paula Deen have been fired from Food Network? Crisis of epic proportions!
In France, near Paris. Ping strims.pl to get an idea.
I love what CTF365 is doing with Security Training Gamification! It's essentially a huge Capture the Flag game where hackers are doing everything they can to attack and defend servers!
I often read FAQs in order to get a sense of what I should be asking about a product or service I'm unfamiliar with. It helps put things into context.

Sure, I could get that information other ways, but I don't see anything wrong with including a FAQ in your "about" section, or "tutorial" or "documentation" or wherever the rest of your information is, along with handy links to get more information. FAQ or no, you should have a starting point for people with zero information to learn more about what you're offering.
It's dedicated hosting, not some shared managed thing. You do whatever you want with it.
I totally agree -- the quality of Udacity courses is the best of any of the online learning options (paid or free). Every time a non-CS friend asks me where to start learning to code online I point them to Udacity's CS 101 (over Codecademy or Coursera).
That's the elephant in the room. There are far more hedge funds than there are rocket science algorithms that could possibly confer a trading advantage.
Very cool idea.
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