skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The smart phone plan was a requirement for buying subsidized non-feature phones from AT&T until last year. they dropped that in favor of the tethering scam. I'm still managing to avoid both. but it's a pain.

I'm actually only on AT&T because they scammed me via my employee. They advertise 30% discount. So you go there, sign up for 2yrs. It takes exactly 90 days for a bill to show up with the discount when you have a FAN id (corp discount). why? because after 90 days you can't cancel the 2yr contract anymore, and then you learn that the 30% only applies to voice, for the first line. so you get $6 instead of the $30/mo you were expecting.

i would have gone with t-mobile. and the 2yrs are ending now, so i might switch.
I get the sense you're a Cocoa Controls user :)

I always love getting feedback from users of the site; please let me know if you have any!
A researcher applying for a research job doesn't list their skills (well, maybe as a minor point), they list projects, publications, along with experience. The CV often looks more like a portfolio.
In my country is worse. The media call him a mole.
Honest question: if DuckDuckGo doesn't track the users, how can it improve when more users are using it?
You mean like all these people "mining bitcoins" are cracking encryption codes?
An encryption algorithm's security is boolean - it either leaks data to third parties or it doesn't. The algorithms we use are currently not known to be compromised, but lack of proof of compromise is not proof of lack of compromise. If the NSA has found a vulnerability in AES-256 or some mathematical breakthrough that makes it possible to decrypt AES-256-encrypted data in polynomial time, or even just a side-channel attack in $POPULAR_SSL_LIBRARY, all bets are off.
I couldn't help but wonder if c10r was an abbreviation (is there a name for this form of shortening?):

% grep '^c..........r$' /usr/share/dict/words
cabinetmaker
calligrapher
carpetbagger
cartographer
cheeseburger
chiropractor
collaborator
commissioner
communicator
confectioner
conquistador
counteroffer
countertenor
Classic narcissistic personality disorder. Run for the hills. With NPDs, it is always everybody else's fault. Add pathological lying, some bipolar, and maybe just for fun booze/drugs and they'll drive you insane too.
I feel as though some people spent many years doing painstaking, world class engineering work, and I paid them so that I could use it.

After I paid them they continued to support me videos and direct communication to help me use what I'd paid for, and they took seriously the problems I identified.

I'm sorry that you consider this being 'Robbed'. I had my car stolen once, and my house broken into another time, and those things didn't feel good.
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On the other hand, without peer-review your obscure system could be trivially cracked once the government has an interest in it.
I don't know about misogynist but he was white and was rich from his music. Lennon was a peace-loving hippie. The lyrics from 'Revolution' aren't necessarily talking about the Black Panthers, I always felt they were talking to the times and society in general, including government.

Jay-Z is rich now too - can he not have opinions on politics/race/religion or do you also dismiss him as a misogynist black man who had all the money and privilege in the world?
Not tracking the user's personal information doesn't mean you're not tracking the number of clicks, or calculate geoip stats.
Ok, I can't think of an attack that could be accomplished by controlling half the traffic on the network. It doesn't mean there isn't one, but I can't think of it. I think that was a bad guess on my part.
It's AP style - http://blog.ap.org/2013/06/10/whistle-blower-or-leaker/

Other interesting discussions about language usage on the AP blog - http://blog.ap.org/
That's great but what is the $ of private funding per country?
Ethical != stupid.

Don't underestimate someone because you dislike what they do.
You are making an incredible amount of assumptions.

We were all hired at the same time. Everybody is new, but not new to the field, we got to work from day 1. We are hired for very specific tasks, we get in, we get out, and right now we're not getting in fast enough. Make sense?

I know the way they are, I know why they were hired. It doesn't matter what their expectations are from me, because it's below what I'm capable of getting accomplished and that's not the game I play. Don't get me wrong, we're all friends. It's not me vs. my employees. It's an internal struggle of mine to get my teammates to properly match my level of expectations, not just make something passable that hapazardly works.

We are a team of contractors here to get a job done, and it's not being done as best can be.

I work for one of the biggest companies in the US. There's a high probability you use one of our applications.

We all work in a common space. When one co worker is on the phone with their tenant and divorce lawyer on and off all the time, then complaining about hitting deadlines and not meeting them, we have a big fucking problem.

I know what I'm dealing with, thank you for your input. What I'm having a hard time with is determining the route to solve this problem without ruining lives.
I think they are aware of what you're suggesting they wrote:

"Then again, knowing the humble size of our userbase, we should let neither our expectations nor our imagination run wild on this front."

Still it is the first browser which chooses DDG as its default search engine that I am aware of. This is quite a thing for such a small company like DDG. Now others can follow (or not) when they see that it worked (or not) for Gnome. And even if on Linux more people are aware of the fact that they can change their search engine in the browser, still there is a fair amount who just use what is there. It is therefore browsers nowadays are developed, do sell the default search engine position.

I remember the days when IE had 98% of the market share.
We built something similar in node.js (as express/connect middleware)

http://github.com/sydneystockholm/imgr
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There are multiple data points suggesting the NSA is/was ahead of public researchers. There's the sbox changes to DES in the 70's when differential cryptanalysis wasn't publicly discovered till the 80's. The revisions between SHA-0 and SHA-1 (the attack the changes prevent weren't found for at least 5 years). The Dual EC DRBG random number generator they supplied to NIST that many people suspect of being compromisable by NSA etc.
Great idea! (For those of you that didn't figure it out immediately either - click on the "eye" on the offers page to see what you get in both).
...your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.

Obviously he wasn't correct otherwise MLK would've been unsuccessful.
I think you might be joking but I was actually thinking about this the other day and wondering if it might be plausible.
no, this actually happened. feel free to respond with some evidence to the contrary though.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obamas-war-on-pot-...
what about someone with all the keys they want using all these nodes to sniff and de-crypt traffic?
NSA capabilities are primarily directed out of country. It's the other guy's capabilities I think they're more worried about.
Non-programmers don't think like this.

They don't falsely imagine that they have the ability to modify the device 'as they see fit' in the first place. To do that, you'd have to do more than just 'hire a programmer'. If you really have the resources to do that, then nobody, not even Apple, is stopping you from hiring a team.
There needs to be both signed javascript and signed native code plugins for javascript (similar to JNI). Both of these require significant leadership because of the fragmented nature of existing implementations. The upside is an ability to deliver native crypto libraries and other plugins that remove the potential of having its internals introspected or MITMed.

The protections against malicious code have to be there, so it would be the same order-of-magnitude of installing any other browser plugin.
I don't think it is clear at all. Woz's description of their respective role is crystal clear, and Job's description is clear only if you already know Woz's description.

But, convince me, don't belittle me. What words did Jobs say in that video to convey that what he did was envision the end-user version of the computer (which I agree is what he did).

edit: I am not suggesting something unheard of, after all. Google 'jobs takes credit for others work' and relevant links fill the page. Here's the top one:
http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-would-annoy-jony-i...
'Leaker' is the closest thing to neutral. With most people he is either a 'whistle-blower' or a 'traitor'.
So maybe there's an agency out there with codes that all start with a number of leading zeros?
Ask Bezos, I guess.
I actually disagree as well. Sure, themeforest has themes, but this actually looks professional.
Is that per week?
We've decided to drop the prices based on feedback. Thew new prices are $49 and $79. Everyone who has purchased Modulz already will be refunded the difference.
The word "fraudulent" is excessive, but when a site asks me a very specific yes/no question like "Did Paul graduate from Stanford on June 6, 1999?," it feels like this is user-generated data rather than Linkedin-generated data.
>a single solar sattelite [multiple for redundancy, in reality] can replace a large proportion continent's energy infrastructure

Woah there. Exactly how much power would each of these hypothetical satellites provide?
Absolutely agree. It was very difficult to read, and I ended up having to remove the italic and color styles applied to that section, just to be able to read the article.
You may be thinking of the Ellis/Cocks/Williamson[1] invention of the RSA encryption and Diffie-Hellman key-exchange algorithms several years prior to their open publication.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis
"Padding your resume" is not a priority shared by everybody. Many people contribute to projects that are not visible because they see an inadequacy and they believe they have a solution. Or you know, for fun. Fun is pretty independent of visibility, if it wasn't then single-player video-games wouldn't exist.
i try to get my SO to write academic essays in applications that have history or diff viewing... but never had any success. but that only means the current offerings are bad. even for programmers.

regarding your points, when i set up `meld` to show the text she sent vs what her professor or coleague sent back, she is amazed. So there is usefulness.

Second, have you ever used Kwrite in KDE? you don't have to commit or anything. just type. and it shows the diffs marks on the left. pretty hand. and avoid commits and all.

about point #2, just make branches and tags more practical. Also, try to merge back those 'word fixes' in other branches ' heads. would be awesome even for programmers.

source: optimist :)
Clicked on the news, was frustrated by the kind of accident and came here to post something just like your comment - link included.

Not only me - this is the top comment and there are three more comments about this. This is a good measure of how geek this site is.
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The documents says they are "...investing in groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit internet traffic." Not that they have achieved groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities.

It's common for people to suggest that the NSA is 20 years ahead of the private sector, but it's not clear how true this is. That number is commonly cited as a result of changes the NSA made to DES, which later suggested (and Don Coppersmith openly confirmed) they knew about differential cryptanalysis 20 years before Shamir published anything about it.

However, that was long before cryptography became as popular a research topic outside of government circles. There are now many other places to go to do that type of research, and based on the public payscale data available, almost all of them pay better than the NSA. Recent developments, such as their Dual Counter Mode proposal in 2001, suggest that they might not be as far ahead as they once were.
If @joeyAghion doesn't get to it first, we will gladly take a PR to change the color! Our blog repo is public here: https://github.com/artsy/artsy.github.com/tree/source
Endgame Systems

https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Hanif-Binarypig-Scala...
They were originally using an older version, but Chef 11 is now supported. I believe it's the default for new stacks, and old ones can be updated from the stack settings page.

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/07/24/aws-ops...
Well, we have at least twice as many data points as that. IBM discovered differential cryptanalysis in the early 70s, and the NSA apparently knew about it before then, and nobody else found out until the late 80s.

I don't know what organization spends the most money on cryptanalysis every year, but the NSA's gotta be near the top. It's reasonable to assume they've found important results that the public won't know of for several years.
And whatever you do: don't grey out the fucking text.
I could prefer to see hardware manufacturers involved.

Network engineering is always nice too, but it depends so much in the user-land packager choices... or in "alpha" patches...
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As a Washington resident I'm glad that the DoJ has decided not to drag us into a legal battle over this that could have delayed the opening of recreational marijuana storefronts, which should happen around the end of the year.

This bit is just as interesting to me:

> Under the new guidelines, federal prosecutors are required to focus on eight enforcement priorities, including preventing marijuana distribution to minors, preventing drugged driving, stopping drug trafficking by gangs and cartels and forbidding the cultivation of marijuana on public lands.

The federal government's interference with state marijuana laws in recent years has not come via grand legal challenges to the laws themselves, but rather through continued and sometimes arbitrary harassment and arrest of medical marijuana providers across the country.

Hopefully this signals that the DEA will no longer go after producers and distributors who are complying with state laws, but instead leave it to the states to enforce their own laws.
Readability that shit. Though honestly, in this case, I couldn't even be arsed to do that.
Freedom and the Social Contract (Vint Cerf)
No coincidence at all. ;)
My thoughts exactly. In my business experience, I dealt with two individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Of course, I did not see their medical records; it was hearsay. However, it explained much about their behavior. It's a sad story, but it is also the face of mental illness, which is all too real. Learning to recognize and deal with this is another thing to store in one's experience quiver.
Chef 11 support was announced recently: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/07/aws-opsworks-update-custo...
How is that different from using Google over https without logging in?
Interested in what you guys have. I signed up!

One note that you have probably already thought of is make sure to have multiple options. In the working world, it seems to me that the hardest thing to do is find time for cooking good meals. So having a few options for quick, medium prep, and longer prep would be insanely helpful. Looking forward to it!
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I have built this with one of the great fellow hackers I met here on HN, it's meant to be a mix between a easy on the eye (clean and beautiful wall papers I found and have been given by friends) start page and a duck duck go like bang feature plus more. After hooking the keyboard keys to URLs you can reach your favorite web sites with a flick of one finger no enter needed.

Angularjs, nodejs, mongodb, sweat :-)
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> But aren't most widely adopted algorithms decently future proof?

Absolutely not.

The algorithms rely on assumptions, and they're not at all future-proof.

One is about certain classes of mathematical problems being hard (in RSA, it's factoring numbers). We don't know whether they're hard (there's no proof; it's an "open problem").

Another is that random numbers selected in encryption are uniformly distributed and unpredictable. (In RSA, you pick two large prime numbers, p and q. If two people share a number, say my p is the same as your q, then we're both screwed. This particular assumption has been already been violated a bunch of times in the past twenty years; from the Debian OpenSSL thing, to the Android/Bitcoin thing.)

There are many other assumptions (Certificate Authorities can be trusted, etc.) that a paranoid person would have to worry about.

I think the new hotness is elliptic curve cryptography (e.g. ECDSA), but I don't understand it well enough to know if it's substantially better than the RSA implementations that are currently popular. I'd say what we have now is like a lock on the door -- it's enough to prevent the neighbour's kid from getting in, but not enough to stop a determined lockpick or the government.
Kudos to DDG :)
Bruce Schneier wrote in Applied Cryptography, Second Edition (around 1996):

"The NSA probably possesses cryptographic expertise many years ahead of public state of the art (in algorithms, but probably not in protocols) and can undoubtedly break many of the systems used in practise."

In 2010 former NSA technical director mentioned that they have been losing ground to their public counterparts during the last twenty years but that they would probably be still ahead of the public by "handful of years". [1]

[1] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/030410-rsa-cloud-secur...
So now instead of launching panels, you're launching a panel factory. Actually you're launching their entire supply factories too (mining, high-purity silicon boule manufacturing, wafer cutting, smelting metals for busbars and backing, etc). None of this has been done in microgravity before. Everything will need mass optimization, and you need provisions for maintenance and repair on all these systems.

Doable? Sure. But you have to make a lot of panels before it pays off.
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> If you really have the resources to do that, then nobody, not even Apple, is stopping you from hiring a team.

That's the crux of the matter though. Apple can stop me from hiring a team. They can do anything they like, because they have retained ultimate control over my [1] device, even after purporting to sell it to me.

[1] - "My device" is only rhetorical of course - I don't actually own any iOS devices for reasons that should be obvious by now.
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Wikipedia is not the ultimate repository of human knowledge, particularly when it comes to more tricky questions like "what is a scientist?"...

If we're going to throw definitions around, how about dictionary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scientist?s=t

> an expert in science, especially one of the physical or natural sciences.
Sure but then the only distinction is price, and this just becomes about getting stuff for free.
If you know anything about bitcoin, you'll realize this is a silly proposition.
I have built this with one of the great fellow hackers I met here on HN, it's meant to be a mix between a easy on the eye (clean and beautiful wall papers I found and have been given by friends) start page and a duck duck go like bang feature plus more. After hooking the keyboard keys to URLs you can reach your favorite web sites with a flick of one finger no enter needed.

Angularjs, nodejs, mongodb, sweat :-)
NSA could purchase more GPUs, FPGAs and custom designed ASICs than all the world's bitcoin miners combined for a small fraction of its $11 billion annual budget.
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I looked at this link. It seems that the tenmax product is substantially different than the Teleport Tool. There seems to be a superficial similarity in their names.
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> they're unhappy about something

emphasis added
http://vimeo.com/4798314
>Basically, you can't exceed the power per steradian of the sun with mirrors.

This is something I've wondered about. It seems like one should be able to make a counterexample by focusing an enormous area on a tiny one. Is it just because due to "fuzzy focus," the concentrated focus volume unavoidably grows as the mirror size grows?
This sounds very similar to the types of tools Obama used for his campaign. It's nice to see such tools are now available to the everyman w/o having to invest in a team of operational specialists.

http://www.williamhertling.com/2013/07/printable-obama-for-a...
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the new compose takes the cake! if anything is definitive proof that google has zero talent/skill in UX/UI it is this.

incredibly shocking that within an organization as large and as wealthy such incompetence can rise to such a high level to dictate such a gigantic leap backwards and no one is around to laugh at the imbecilic change.
Are you seriously trying to imply that an alleged pot dealer is more dangerous than an alleged murderess?

Who alleged she's a murderess? She may have allegedly killed her boyfriend, but murder implies malice aforethought, while the victim's "lengthy criminal record and history of domestic violence" paints a different picture.

Let's not use terms that aren't justified by the facts, please.
So the first part is simply false. You're legally entitled to install whatever you like on your iPhone. Apple doesn't owe you the work to make that easy and they have not. Go ahead - hire your team.

But really, if you have the resources to hire a team to build a Mobile OS, why wouldn't you just commission hardware from someone else, rather than running it on iPhones?
The Teleport Tool is similar to Reliable Sockets in purpose. There are some differences as well. It looks like Reliable Sockets are not multi-threaded and they do not include connection pooling, which the Teleport Tool does. It also seems that the Reliable Sockets project has been abandoned.
I know what's best for them because it's just a low calorie version of the institutional abuse of women in India (https://medium.com/the-state-of-india-1/b50ee55ba5ff and http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1023053), and who would argue Indian society should just accept it because it's what they do?
A lot of SMTP server-to-server traffic is encrypted. But a lot of it isn't, and it only takes one exposed hop. So as a general rule email isn't effectively or reliably encrypted. There's probably also a lot of email traffic being carried over crackable VPN links such as PPTP.
If there's one thing that grinds my gears, it's people who treat engineers as if they were some kind of underclass who have absolutely zero ability to understand customer needs. It's sometimes like engineers solely exist to translate other peoples' ideas into reality.
It more feels like the MD wanted to keep schmoozing and acting important ignoring the reality of the situation.

There have been a few stories over the passed couple of years where someone name drops and schmoozes to elevate their own profile. In the end, they are found out to be frauds or worse.

Any area that gets a lot of hype will have those that want to cling on.
I'd say doing science requires a specific mindset. Using amount of knowledge as a criterion seems wrong - how did the first scientists come about, presumably they didn't know anything at all yet?
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Fun idea. I'm worried that you may be sued or something though; isn't that design sort of "Facebook's" property?