skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does the content of this article justify the straight-up factual assertion in the headline? This is just a thing about some guy speculating about some stuff. The headline implies a conclusive clinical trial result. HNers should know better than to upvote this kind of shit.

EDIT: I wrote the above when the title was "Gym workouts and sunbathing do more for your brain than crosswords and Mozart" and the link was to a different URL.
Actually, I don't believe you when you say you have no desire to solve the problem. Your referenced comment suggests otherwise.

Taking the piss out of the mailpile folks is probably professionally satisfying, on some level, but I think you have to admit that, once your done, we're still left with a fundamental problem. Your objections are perfectly correct, but surely you can appreciate the frustration when folks who should know what they're doing can only contribute a, "well, someone else should design a new email system with these features." Thanks for the help.

Yes, it is not perfect. Yes, traffic analysis is still a problem. Yes, it has not yet been vetted (because it doesn't really exist yet, which I think you have to admit is a pretty good reason). Still, it's better than flapping your arms about, helpfully declaring, "THE PROBLEM IS UNSOLVABLE!!"
The CRX with the transparent rear hatch panel was cool. It lost something when the design was adapted to the original Insight.
A Dry Pipeline for Psychiatric Drugs
What Happens When You Try and Explain to Someone You Work in SEO
The definition depends on the context. When discussing risk of electrical shock, below 50V is usually considered low voltage (and safe).
Hardware is not just software wrapped in plastic
Okay, thanks. I'm really looking to throw away my monitor moreso than all the AR stuff.
Can you split equity with the Shapley value?
[citation needed]

The Tesla designers have been thinking about that.
It appears like a shameless self-plug article about the developers app.
More to the point though, is that forcing the NSA to work on a specific message is computational power that they can't use to oppress the populace at large.

I know PJ is quite private (and probably rightfully so after the private investigators that were sicced on here during the SCO trials), but I was still shocked to read about this. Imagine if the New York Times and Washington Post had shut down in the 1940s, 50s, 60s when phone wiretapping was completely legal for the government to do.

Not only did they not shut down, but they didn't even have encryption to use back then. The people are far better armed today to be able to protect their communications.
My supporting argument is that every president, every leader of every nation in the entire world from as long as nations have existed have behaved, in this specific regard, exactly the same. There is never, in the history of humanity, an example of a leader who did not have a clandestine intelligence-gathering arm of his or her government.

Furthermore, there has never been a leader of the US who has been able to avoid killing people through military action. Every president in the history of the US has blood on his hands. Arguably, every leader of every country does as well. From Nelson Mandella to Stalin, to Churchill to Sulla, from Nefertiti to William Wallace - all leaders kill people, spy on people, and break their country's laws.

What reason would I have to believe a third party candidate could buck literally thousands of years of corruption, privacy violations and death? It's in the damned job description - leading is immoral, regardless of what party affiliation the leader carries.

So would literally every action taken by Bush or Obama be repeated? No. But you can be damn sure that the things we all have huge problems with would be, by any human being on the planet put into the positions they were put into. They're acting rationally, given the information they've got.
Designing? Not low skill. Actually building? Possibly less skilled. Frank Gary doesn't need master carpenters to get his dream created.
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The whitehat program page clearly spells out that you should use test accounts and then links you to a place to view/create test accounts: https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/accounts/
He was not seriously advocating such a system, merely saying that such a scenario would be the only way to get the richer parents to pay more, ala the airline model. Otherwise it's a simple act of charity.
Groklaw shutting down, because email privacy 'is impossible'
Email Marketing Class for Executives
Yeah, since I'm a single developer, and not a company, my wife wouldn't like it if I shared the money aspect with the whole world. I thought people might be interested in the download numbers though, as how that translates into revenue is very dependent on the app.
I wrote this article and a quick calculator to divide shared costs. But assuming you just measure amount owed by time spent in a startup the calculator could be used to price contributions.

Resolving Bankruptcy Claims
http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-bankruptcy

If you could calculate how much individual alliances are worth it becomes closer to a full Shapley value calculation but how would this be done?
or use lthread.

http://github.com/halayli/lthread
> "java with type inference"

Scala only has very limited inference. In fact, so limited that, based on this criterion alone, I would take Java's powerful refactoring tools over Scala's inference anytime. (One of my main uses of inference is enabling fearless aggressive refactoring.)

But let's say Scala had a type system amenable to global inference with a nice principal types property. This does not prevent you from having to annotate types when, at a module boundary, you want a term to have a more specialized type than its principal type. (Within module boundaries, it is admittedly no big deal to have terms whose types are more generic than their use would warrant.)

> "no semicolons, and a shorter form of final"

You cannot tell me with a straight face that cosmetic syntactic changes are a particularly compelling reason to switch languages. (Well, you can, but then you cannot convince me you are a pragmatic engineer.)

> "it's already an improvement over java."

Yes, but, without taking advantage of Scala's powerful type system, is the improvement over Java substantial enough to justify the investment in learning a new language?
I'm reminded of protothreads (http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/). I used protothreads some time ago on an embedded project to implement a (very small) HTTP server in only a few KB or RAM.
There are two types of nodes in the system, "servers" and "users". All servers communicate with each other so that they are all aware of all existing "servers" globally. There will likely be a limit on who is allowed and authorized to be a server. ( likely a list of their public keys published to the main site for the project )

All packets must be hashed and authorized ( signed ) by the server before they can be sent out. Any packet not authorized by a server will be rejected. In this way, servers will rate limit originating packets.

The traffic is distinguishable because the onion layer is identified at each level. If, after unwrapping your layer, you discover the underlying "level" is not 1 less than your own informed level, the ip origination will be flagged back to the server for spamming.

Current estimate for number of onion levels is 100. Actual destination should be somewhere in the middle 60 or so, to prevent government tracing of the packet because all hops.

At each hop, random delays will be implemented, as well as injection of extra data and/or disguising the entire packets as other forms of tcp communication. ( to prevent dropping of the packets through filtering )

The "servers" know that users are sending out origination packets at a specific rate and to whom, but nothing about the layers beyond the first. Additionally, the entire onion packet is never sent to any server, only a hash of it with specific other information. This way, "servers" can never be accused of harboring illegal data of any sort.

Forwarding rates are measured because each onion layer containing a "message of receipt" that is sent back to the server. The server receieves all of those from the originating user before approving the onion packet.

The only think attackers of the system could try to do is attempt to DDOS users of the system. This is prevented inherently by it being known at all types all users logged into the system ( this is public knowledge in the system ). Communication is only allowed from valid behaving users.
Congratulations on getting the funding. I really hope that over the next 22 days it's pushed much higher so you can develop the product faster.

I installed the current version last week to have a play. Even in its current state it's very promising - too far away to really be used yet but once it matures it could be a great product.
And to reinforce the original point: Vitamin D helps calcium and phosphorus uptake in your system (really, it's crucial for it):

"For example, some of the proteins produced in response to calcitriol in the intestine help transport calcium across the intestine and into the bloodstream, greatly increasing the absorption of calcium from the diet. The vitamin D receptor is found in several cells that are critical for controlling the metabolism of calcium, phosphorus, and bone: intestinal cells, bone cells, kidney cells, and parathyroid gland cells."

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/what-is-vitamin-d-and-...

"Vitamin D’s best-known role is to keep bones healthy by increasing the intestinal absorption of calcium. Without enough vitamin D, the body can only absorb 10% to 15% of dietary calcium, but 30% to 40% absorption is the rule when vitamin reserves are normal." ... "Low levels of vitamin D lead to low bone calcium stores, increasing the risk of fractures." ... "In the intestines, the receptors capture vitamin D, enabling efficient calcium absorption. But similar receptors are also present in many other organs, from the prostate to the heart, blood vessels, muscles, and endocrine glands."

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/vitamin-d-and-your-he...
"In the adult world, the caste system still exists in a rather potent form: dating. If you are a man who is marked out in some way as earning less"

This isn't really a caste system, it's just human nature. Women are generally attracted to men that have ambition and a good job is a good indicator of this.

Would you consider ugliness a caste system as well? Women that are less attractive will get less attention (and dates) on and offline.
Alright, people explained stuff to me, now can you stop downvoting my question? It is not a stupid question!
>Dutch and Swedish used to be your average Wikipedias, with article counts somewhere in the ~500k. They both decided that it was more important to have a higher article count so they now employ bots to create new articles with the bare minimum of data (sentence or two, pulled from other language Wikipedias).

Interesting! The german wikipedia in comparison is doing the exact opposite and has very strict relevance criteria for new articles.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
No, it does not. Take this message:

From: anonymous_acct_101@mailpile.is
To: anonymous_acct_77@mailpile.is
Mime-shit....
DEFKJiwfou3hoqwdnhoqiwfhoqifowqihwqoidhqwod==

This is quite a secure message and it would be as easy to send as any other email with mailpile or similar services. My point is that security is not a black&white concept. There is a continuous of security, and part of the job of mailpile could be to give a "security score" to your message before you hit the send button, similarly to what we do when we calculate entropy on password and give a "security score" on the password. A password with a good score does not guarantee the security of your login but at least it will help you understand more about the entire process.
Again, maybe?
It's very easy to do more than 32 bits at a time, even on CPU's not supporting vector instructions.
Observer Pattern in Ruby: NSA Edition
Watch the reveal videos. Tesla's designers are good.
I found this one: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=821_1367344455
Free speech and filters can coexist, but only if free speech is the law of the land and filters are not.
"So post a PGP key and say, if you really want anonymity, use this."

PGP only provides confidentiality, not anonymity. To get anonymity as well would require TOR.
Science & Culture: Is Brain Project the Apollo of Our Time?
What's a long haul flight? I can fly pretty much across the country on Southwest. Are we talking about transcontinental flights here?
>People have a tendency to see the short term and hype it up beyond all belief.

Actually, the opposite is true for me. I have been watching government corruption since the early 80s and have seen nothing but malfeasance for 30 years.

If you pay attention to the long term, you will see how much corruption and farked up BS there really has been.

Because many people only see the short term, they tend to lose sight of the history of how we got to where we are.

Just take a simple timeline of Cheney's activities:

* Sec of Defense under Bush, he sets up the framework for the military to focus on it's core - ad to push all non-combat activities to the private sector.

* Leaves office to head halliburton to put them in a position to receive all government contracts for non-combat activities

* Comes back as VP and is just so lucky to lead the start of the largest, longest, most expensive war of our generation. Pushes trillions of dollars to the private sector defense contractors.

If you were only looking at the short term, you'd have missed how odd that timeline looks.

You can delve into it even further and just see how really bad it was.

Christ - even a whole documentary was made about it. (Watch Iraq for sale)
Wow, I didn't realize they went that high. Then yes, with the current output of a battery pack, I can see why people are worried.
I guess it sort of is, hOOk, though I'm not sure how to write about my specific experience without it being just that.

Before my app was featured, I was looking online for two pieces of information, how to get featured and how many downloads I could get from being featured.

All I could find for how to get featured was "make a good app", turns out that part is true.

I couldn't find anything for what to expect as a result of being featured. Some people shared general looking graphs, but I'm sharing actual numbers so that people can have an idea of the process, and the result, of being featured.
>Little to do with reconstruction, lots to do with ensuring economic dependence. Why not talk about the Dawes and Young plans?

Could you explain this a little? How this economical dependence was created? How does it related to Dawes and Young plans?
>Please educate yourself about the history of successful social movements like labor rights, civil rights, environmental protection, etc.

Given that the current context involves opposing government power, I'm not sure labour rights and environmental protection are relevant examples; both resulted in massive expansion of the effective scope government power.

Civil rights would perhaps be a slightly better example simply because what was being fought against were largely government creations (e.g., legally compulsory discrimination). And even then the civil rights movement had a visible violent side[1].

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/1ds5fa/a_march_...
It seems strange to see a long article on the novelty of Frontback without mentioning that it mimics and seems largely inspired by the built-in Dual Shot feature on Galaxy S4.
I think it's more like 0.05% of us give a shit. Nobody else gives a damn so long as American Idol on Ice-Factor or whatever the hell people are vicariously existing through these days airs.

Humanity is neatly self correcting themselves out of existence.

Have you got a 27b/6?
"Waiting for hours for it to charge" is not accurate.

Actual On-Demand Refilling Stats:

- One hour at supercharging station

- Two minutes at battery swapping station
A copy of the actual paper is available at:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/08/16/1221454110.abst...
Title as submitted: "Mailpile is funded - secure email for everyone"
And what stops you using an intrusive datastructure in C++?
Show HN: Writing a book - Advanced PHP Web Applications
`angular 1700.00%` wow…

by the number of Go articles I see on hn I thought there would me more jobs related to it.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4423031

Here is the link to the transcribed portion of the talk (starting at 00h:30m:02s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk&t=1802
Ask HN: Is it wise to use affiliate marketers to promote a startup?
We've been developing some educational video products with a reputable author which we are planning to promote through Adwords.

We've been approached by a friend of a friend who claims to be able to use his contacts in the "affiliate" and "super affiliate" world to drive sales of our product. They were saying the product would be sold through Clickbank.

They've made wild claims, such as the possibilities of making tens of thousands of dollars in pure profit in just the first few weeks. This will apparently happen when the affiliates they have "relationships" with send out the offer to members of their mailing lists.

It sounds like we'll have no control over what the affiliates will do to drive traffic, which is extremely worrying.

They also warned that we might want to sell it under a second brand name, because some affiliates will create websites with titles such as "Is [product/author] a scam?" in order to get people to click their search result link. This page will apparently actually commend the product and then earn affiliate commission if anyone clicks to buy.

We'd hope they have legitimately aquired opt-in mailing lists to promote our offer to, but we simply won't know. I've seen lots of big brands such as 1-800-flowers use affiliates heavily to drive their promotions. Perhaps those big brands are only making affiliate deals in an extremely quality controlled manner, rather than opening it up to any affiliate that is interested?

They are willing to arrange this for us for free and share 50/50 in the upside with us, so at least that tells us they have some genuine intention of getting us real sales.

Is our caution misplaced? Could anyone share their experiences with using affiliates please?
> This is not surprising since "pj" guards his privacy and anonymity.

"Her". Pamela is a woman.
This deserves to be a separate post, not a comment
Frankly, I don't understand that.

E-mails are unsafe for private communication. What the recent revelations did is that they showed that e-mails really are unsafe.

If you are really afraid that you are under surveillance, switch to PGP. It's not hard.
Even in case of success and receiving an offer, I personally have a feeling that you need to be very very lucky to get the really interesting work in these BigCo's.

I know a couple of googlers, talented programmers, but they ended up as "yet another CRUD" python devs there.
At least these times are useful to find out which publications have the interests of the public at heart. I will cancel my subscription of the (shockingly silent) Economist and get a Guardian subscription instead.

Back in the day, I used the cablegate affair to gauge the "balls" of all the publications that were involved in the coordinated release. It might interest some of you that only El País had no "we're sorry but we have to do this because we are journalists" article in it.
throwww.com might be a good alternative. No curation by editors. Recommended articles to come based on algorithms and not circle jerks. Full disclosure: I built it.
Partially it's just a stupid race, see e.g. page in Russian Wikipedia [1], completely dedicated to discussions of the "Wikipedias race", celebrating wins over other wikis, coordinating bot article creation, blaming competitors for "unfair" low-quality bot article uploads, etc. On the other hand, batch uploads are not completely useless -- batch-uploaded article stubs have consistent style, depth and quality (something that's hard to get with crowd-sourced articles), and with script-created articles it's possible to get exhaustive consistent coverage of boring topics like rivers, insects or villages.

[1] http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%81%D1%83%D0%B6%... (title -- "Race")
Pretty sure he was pointing out that politics often trumps technology, though Lavabit isn't as good of a technical solution as it could have been.
I enjoyed the article. Kudos on rewriting your server to be more performant and efficient. It's amazing what a motivated dev can do in a weekend, and it's a great reminder of how much room there often is for optimizing.
s/complementary/complimentary

This is a fairly edge case, that only really occurs on US domestic flights. The majority of the world's frequent-flyer programmes do not give space-available upgrades in the way that say American or United do domestically.

The vast majority of those travelling in premium cabins (or their employers) paid cash for their ticket.
The problem with my ideas usually isnt that they are bad, its that they wont work or they have been done in some way without my knowledge. But Im fine with presenting it here, but I will do so in a non responded thread above.
Hey guys, I'm one of the developers who wrote Pure. Feel free to direct any questions towards me.
So, did you not sign the NDA where you agree not to discuss the content of the interviews, or are you just throwing caution to the wind here?
Doesn't look like it! Will be excited to see this though.
Aren't those the same concerns people had when gasoline cars were introduced? It was considered to be too dangerous to use.

Fast forward to today, cars are not exploding. Battery safety issues will be dealt with.

Considering the fact that Tesla batteries are made for lots of really tiny cells, I can't imagine it is impossible to disconnect them from each other in the case of a crash.
Critical Friend: "Ah, so you spam Google so that I don't get the best results for my search?"
Awesome. It's a welcome relief to see a happy story of an independent developer, instead of the sad endings that we are so used to when we see such titles.
Good luck.
I don't disagree with your last statement, but I also wish to point out that there are, believe it or not, other reasons to encrypt email that do not involve the NSA.
Hey all! Mailpile tech lead here. Just wanted to say THANKS to those of you who helped make this happen so quickly.

Improving e-mail security, flawed as the underlying protocols may be, is long overdue. We don't promise perfection, but we do have clear ideas about things that can be improved and how. We strongly believe in a pragmatic, backwards compatible approach that helps people slowly migrate to better habits.

For some background on the wider philosophy of the project, check out the slides from my OHM presentation where I launched this: http://mailpile.is/files/OHM2013%20-%20Rescuing%20e-mail%20f... - this project is as much about rebooting FOSS e-mail development and fostering decentralization, as it is about encryption and security.

We will be posting more details to our blog at http://www.mailpile.is/blog/ as soon as we get stuff written down. :-)
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