skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bar to malice is important to consider. If the bar is "high explosives or shaped charges", then you are probably okay. If the bar is "a redneck who is bored with shooting stop-signs", then that might be a problem.
I agree. In my view, the "walled garden" of iOS is just the next step in what Apple had already intended to establish for the original Mac. To be charitable, I can imagine it being based on the idea of protecting the user from Bad Software.

But lots of us wanted to write Bad Software such as little programs for our own use, or for limited, specialized use by other people. I found the Mac programming docs (Inside Mac) to be impenetrable, and the overhead for writing Hello World enormous.

Then I fell in love with HyperCard. But we all know what happened to that.
Ideally if I could have an 11" MBA where I can twist the screen and snap it in place over the keyboard to turn it into an 11" iPad that would be ideal but would never happen.

Sometimes I want to play/browse and iOS is perfect for that with its apps and form factor and touch screen.
Sometimes I want to work/create and OSX is perfect for that with its keyboard and multi-tasking and desktop applications.
Yes, and it involves a lot of the considerations we're bringing up here.

Engines do fail on passenger jetliners from time to time. There are numerous stories of planes landing safely after an engine catches fire. But the plane is travelling at a good speed through the atmosphere. How would things be different in a much smaller vehicle sitting stationary in a mild vacuum?

How would passengers escape a battery fire? (as has been seen multiple times on very modern jets)

If the tube had to be repressurized in an emergency, how long would the tube be out of service to be pumped back down again?

Is it worth building a three tube system for such a possibility?
But we certainly do link them to our computers. http://www.wacom.com/
Weird and Wonderful Things to do in San Francisco
First, can you elaborate to indicate that you understand what "this" is?
Here's an example of a public-private partnership between Rhode Island and Curt Schilling's 38 Studios - http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/07/38-studios-collapse-and-r...
There are plenty of papers published giving calculi and type-safety proofs for object-oriented languages.
Have you spent any time with it as a user? What are the ups and downs of the UX?

I'm more inclined to move to Ubuntu Mobile long-term, but Firefox OS has supported hardware shipping today, and pretty affordably at that.
>I don't think that it's particularly immoral to do this as a way of offering customers cheap food

I don't think their intent is to "offer customers cheap food" (as if they could care less). They just use those techniques to increase their margins.
Let's Make H-1B Visas Better, But Let's Not Stop There
I'm not versed enough in bitcoin script to say definitively, but just guessing, it may be that the bug is that this is a way to get a non-standard txn mined.
By facilitate the learning process are you referring to the programming aspect or the math aspect of data science?
>He's also traditionally been an opponent of government waste.

he is in bed with gov employees unions (the unions are primary driving force behind 200-300K/year gov employees pensions (http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/pensions) with retirement age of 55, CA is something like $200B deep in that hole), and especially with prison guard union - of course huge prison population resulting from "toughness on crime" may not be viewed as government waste by some.

Building a bridge or high-speed rail to nowhere - just a [large] peanut in that picture.
While I certainly can't say anything for the economy of long distance shipping of giant concrete pylons, I can confirm they do get trucked around a lot in the Dallas area. The overpass ribs are basically hooked to a small truck attached to the cab with a small truck on the other far end.

Again, dunno if it's feasible over long distance, but it's certainly done. (Though Texas has a certain affinity to overpasses that borders on the pathological, fun as they are to bike over...)
Call for LinkedIn to Add PGP & S/MIME Certs to Profile Schema
How about spend the full amount, but on more links? That way, you're employing probably more people, both short term and long term.
"The lamps work best with a black cap..." - why would that be so? Wouldn't a reflective cap work well too?
sure we do: http://www.2dayblog.com/2011/10/22/android-ice-cream-sandwic...
First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz’s Secret Service File Released
Great KickStarter project! I'm only half kidding. Public source, why not crowd funding?
It's always been possible to embed messages in transactions and the blockchain in general. It's full of stuff if you look.
From the linked article:

At or above the Armstrong limit, exposed bodily liquids
such as saliva, tears, and the liquids wetting the alveoli
within the lungs — but not vascular blood (blood within the
circulatory system) — will boil away without a pressure suit

As mentioned above, we have been boarding planes without pressure suits for decades, and the hyperloop has two security advantages: it has a large supply of compressed air to work with, and the tunnel can be quickly re-pressurized in the event of a severe rupture. A multitude of concurrent failures (much less likely than those in an airplane) would be necessary for a catastrophe.
The weight of the track ballast alone is more than that. Gravel is about 100 pounds per cubic foot, and you need about 12 cubic feet of ballast per foot of track, or 127,500 pounds.

Then you get to add the rails and ties (or concrete sleepers), plus the vastly more heavy rolling stock.

The reason I said that the weight of the tube doesn't enter into it is because the tube isn't moving. The only thing that matters in terms of energy use is the rolling stock.
The block containing the transaction was mined by Eligius. The Eligius pool allows non standard transactions if the transation is relayed to it directly (plus a fee for the service I think).
The R&D can't happen in government, but in some ways that's better - government projects are slower than this needs to be. What we need is for someone(s?) with deep pockets to bank-roll prototypes &c.
This is supposed to be for commuters? I worry not many would commute daily from LA to SF.

Also, travel time to the station has to be taken into account, even more so if we compare it to driving.
You're right that if a friend shares personal information we would rather be kept generally private, our friend is responsible for the privacy breach. But the person they share with can also be guilty.

Using a binary distinction (private/non-private) for privacy is unhelpful; it is more complicated than that. Things can be semi-private. Privacy is, more than anything, a matter of expectation. This means, among other things, that it is a messy and complicated thing (which it is) because people have different expectations.

You seem to be working off a definition of privacy that is close to "can be accessed by someone else" where in common usage the word means quite a bit more than that.

For example, if I'm talking to a friend in a coffee shop and someone sits down with a mic to start recording us, most people would acknowledge that they are invading our privacy. Perhaps they are legally able to do so. Some people might mock me for trying to have a private conversation in a public place. That doesn't change the fact that if I caught someone trying to listen in, I would consider it a Jerk Thing to do. Not on the basis of legality or even on practicality but on the basis of social expectation. I do not intend to share the conversation with them, nor do I expect them to access it.

Security folks tend to say things like "Expectation isn't a real barrier. You don't have any right to expect people to voluntarily not access things that they physically can." But that's a naive perspective, because social expectation is a real thing and it makes human interactions work.

Now it is true that if we abandon expectation as a real constraint, we will plunge into a dark and cynical world where everything that is not nailed down is for the taking, without recourse. But what I don't get is why we would want to do that. There are some who would say we are in that world; I'm happy to disagree with them.

I'm very happy to stay in the world where other people in the coffee shop would look at the person with the recorder and brand them creepy, because they're snooping - they're trying to access information that (whether or not they can) they're not invited to. I'm happy to keep expectation as a real barrier.

So for example, if you tell your mother your girlfriend's name, it might be a breach of privacy, depending on whether or not she expects you to do so. Your mom might be her boss...

In this case, Facebook is definitely doing a Jerk Thing and violating privacy, because they're working out of sync with peoples expectations. They ask for information for a presumed purpose (to populate your Facebook account) and then use it for an additional secret one.

For instance, if I lent my physical address book to a friend for the purpose of sending out wedding invitations for me, and they made a copy of it so they could flog their pyramid business, you can bet that my friends would be mad, but they would also accept that I was betrayed and that the real privacy violation was on the part of someone who used information they had access to in a way that was not invited or expected.

The right language of what is happening here is that of betrayal and privacy violation.
More simply put, and to answer the main (title) question, the reason encryption is so hard is because it's usually economically rewarding to break.
True hacker, if I ever saw one.
They are also disastrous for the planet - bitcoin's carbon footprint is growing, trading our planet for ... imaginary points. This has got to stop.
CompJournoStick 1.1.0 Released
SINGER :)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Hyperloop
What are you on about?

No one here is saying that an open-source project to assist with Hyperloop could not be launched. Nor that the ability to edit the whitepaper that was released has anything to do with this proposed open-source project. Nor even that people typically release whitepapers only in LaTeX format.

However if an open source project will be launched with Hyperloop then its success will be at least somewhat dependent on the ability of participants to meaningfully contribute.

If "contribute" just means discussing key points then a simple Wiki might suffice. However if "contribute" means technical designs, then the actual drawings and data will be what's needed, not glorified screenshots of AutoCAD and MATLAB.
I've never seen a company I've wished to work for that cared about my Facebook profile.

Companies that care about their employee's choice of fermented milk will go not be a good place to work at, regardless of Facebook. And they will have serious competitive disadvantages.
We do this shuffling already, "in the name of the people". How's that working out?

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become 'profiteers,' who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat...Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." - John Maynard Keynes
Offtopic, but please consider writing some blog posts or articles about your experiences working on nuclear submarines. That just sounds so cool, and while the work is probably dull, I'd nonetheless be fascinated to read some detailed stories.
Nah, wifi would travel great in a long metal tube.
I don't mean to be psychopathic (I do mean to be), but I can't help but read this post as, "I'm jealous of a co-worker who is better at office politics and I'm looking for people to help boost my ego"...
Spare a thought for the Scientist
> one important reason I have to deal with is that the speed of shear waves through soil is only on the order of a couple of hundred miles per hour.

Perhaps a stupid question, but the shock wave forms because the trains is moving continuously over the ground? So if you put the entire thing on stilts, there would be one wave formed at t0, x0 when the train reaches pylon 0 and the next wave would be at t1, x1 etc. So the interference pattern for the waves would look vastly different. ( This holds of course only for point like trains... )
The problem here is that Satoshi has a GPG key, and this message is not signed with it.

http://bitcoin.org/satoshinakamoto.asc
We discuss these limitations as if it were anything other than expecting someone else to subsidize our bandwidth consumption. People who run afoul of personal use restrictions know exactly what they are doing, and that they could never afford the bandwidth legitimately. They lead the charge against metered usage, then act like it's unfair that ISPs court the low usage customers and cut off the people abusing it. If you want fast connections with no caps and no restrictions then pay per MB. If every bit transferred means dollars the ISPs will be happily courting home server users.

A fat person may eat 2-3 times what a normal person does. Not 10,000 times. The analogy is about abusing normal expectations. You are trying to make it fit too tightly. If you really want to extend it to 24/7 access to a buffet it would mean taking up all the plates/silverware so no one else can eat there. Then becoming indignant when asked to leave 'you said it was unlimited!' But I have no desire to play analogy ping pong.
All I can think of is that a black cap won't degrade as quickly because of ultraviolet exposure. Most plastics (long polymers) have chemical bonds that can be broken by the energy level provided by ultraviolet photons, so over time they turn from polymers into quasicrystals and lose their strength -- disintegrate. But a black plastic, by excluding the ultraviolet light, protects itself and lasts much longer.

So a bottle that's composed of a clear plastic that naturally resists ultraviolet degradation (there are several) should be capped by a more rigid plastic (to maintain its shape). So the cap needs to be black (or at least a dark color).

A reflective cap would work just as well at first, but plastics are made reflective by being painted, and the paint soon falls off, because of ... wait for it ... ultraviolet exposure.
Well, Steve Jobs didn't care about Apple being his legacy, so he left the administrators in charge and did not build up a successor (maybe out of choice, maybe lack of choice, maybe lack of time). He created his own legacy.
AFIAK the only way is to do this is to encode data so that it looks like bitcoin receive addresses. This will burn BTC in the process.

This transaction is embedding a message inside of a non-standard output script, which shouldn't be possible.
Neegers.

God says...

Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Monday August 12, 2013 20:34.18 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 35249

----

God says...

Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.

4:1 The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

4:2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat
Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

4:3 And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and
Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi: 4:4 And Penuel
the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons
of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.

4:5 And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

4:6 And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and
Haahashtari.

These were the sons of Naarah.

4:7 And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.

4:8 And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the
son of Harum.

4:9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother
called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
Building worthless HSR lines isn't a necessary or useful step on the road to building useful HSR lines.
Same happened to me with chromium.
I'm pretty sure that idea has been thrown around, maybe even here on previous HN discussions, can't remember. The hard part is having really deep knowledge of the tech involved, manufacturing and costs, and producing a 50-page technical document with input from dozens of top minds in their fields :)
Erlang and OTP in Action goes pretty deep into it.
I doubt they'd bother trying to tax transactions from one Bitcoin address to another. It'd be incredibly infeasible.

They will probably start requiring that all vendors who exchange real world currency or commodities for Bitcoin pay taxes on all such trades, however. Which isn't all that unreasonable.
frak: Transform collections of strings into regular expressions
In THIS case. What if this becomes standardized and more routes are hooked up?
How does a pen and inkwell restrict your number of words per sentence?
If the tube bursts so wide that the capsule could be ejected from it, the inrush of air would likely be so great that capsules probably wouldn't even make it out. The bigger concern would be that they could decelerate too quickly.
Hacktivists Want to Free the Net by Building a New One From Scratch
I agree, but it's a lot easier to block or just avoid that kind of spying. That's a lot different than the NSA putting backdoors into your computer, or reading all your private texts, emails, and phone calls.

And the same tools can be used to fight both. Tor for example, allows you to hide your IP, and various browsers and tools prevent you from accidentally leaking private information to identify you to these websites. Secure operating systems and programs protect you from private hackers and adware just as much as they do from government hackers.
Elon Musk: The Most Disruptive Entrepreneur Of Our Time
How BlackBerry Fell
People in Sao Paolo and Rio are about 40% richer than average Brazilians which reduces the gap somewhat. And GDP growth in Brazil has averaged 3.1% since 1991 with Sao Paolo growing faster. Costs are expected to be much lower for construction ($17 vs $68B) and probably operation. Also they expect it to take 5 years to build versus 15. Not sure how it would all shake out but does not seem to be a clearly worse project.

It's probably moot comparison anyway as best I can tell the Brazil HSR is not going to happen. There have even been giant protests over transportation and government spending.

I'm also pretty skeptical that CA HSR will actually get built - numbers don't add up and popularity is declining. If they can build and operate the Bakersfield to Fresno segment on schedule and budget it might have a chance - but I have doubts they can even do this.
Near-death experiences: Electrical surge in dying brain
ADHD, Texting, and Driving
Interesting. Is Eligius what you would call a merged miner (see [1])? Why would someone pay to have their non-standard txn mined? Is it just for examples/bug demos such as these, or are there other reasons? And I assume these just end up living in their own alternative chain[1]?

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Alternative_chain
Which would be bigger news? That someone who isn't Satoshi managed to do this, or that Satoshi has reappeared after years of silence?
"It used to be cool to smoke too, after all." True, but I don't think marketing made it "uncool", at least not initially. I think that started with individuals, families, friends, health-oriented groups. . .the marketers were among the last to the table. I think the same is true of individual privacy.
You should a little more time reading about it. Among other features, transactions are described by what is essentially a mini scripting language
Flash the lights on a car whenever a text message is sent from a phone inside of it.
I played high level golf for a while and a lot of these articles forget the two main rules I've learned from it. The first is intense practice. This means devoting 100 percent to every repetition. This is obviously difficult because of, among other things, repetition is inherently boring. Luckily for golf, there are an infinite number of shots to practice, and working on all of them should break up the monotony. This leads into the second rule for practice, which is to vary what you work on. For golf, this means playing different shots from all different locations. Besides making it more interesting, it makes you go through the actual process that you would encounter on the course.

This generalizes to other activities easily. The best practice I've found comes from complete effort in game/competition like environments.
No, because of the principle of eminent domain, meaning the government of California can forcefully purchase the land for public use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain

Legally, whoever tried this would be forced to give over the land for "fair market value", and if they were difficult about it they'd probably receive much less.
Maybe the real estate that it goes through is significantly more expensive? I know if you wanted to build a new, totally segregated line from DC to Boston would probably cost 100B easily.
>And I'm not saying that you can't criticize feminism"
It seems I am censored on twitter whenever I mention the feminist ideas of Camille Paglia. Perhaps geek feminist fear her point of view? Feminism is not monolithic, and all voices should be heard. Perhaps her views on 'protecting women' (she sez it is 'efantilizing') is not agreeable to geek feminists? see her Plyboy interview @ http://privat.ub.uib.no/BUBSY/playboy.htm
> riding an elevator

Do people really do this? "Oh, the elevator's going up. Let me watch two minutes of my favourite TV show!"

Maybe I'm just sick of technology, but while I'm having lunch I want to enjoy my lunch, and maybe chat idly with some friends/colleagues.
The last one might say stuff, "show ball" "ha hash terry"

God says...

Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Monday August 12, 2013 20:41.42 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 1813

----

God says...

hast done this thing? 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought,
Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for
my wife's sake.

20:12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my
father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

20:13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my
father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou
shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me,
He is my brother.

20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and
womenservants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his
wife.

20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where
it pleaseth thee.

20:16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a
thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the
eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was
reproved.