skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's totally not what he claims, although that might be what he thinks he argues.

There are enough data points of (thin person, does not exercise or eat properly) and (fat person, exercises and eats "properly") to make that point basically wrong.

Perhaps the problem is with the definition of "properly". But the causation is not total (that is, there are reasons other than food and exercise that cause people to become fat, some known and some unknown), and the population correlation is time reversed to what you would expect (people stop exercising AFTER they gain weight, not BEFORE), to make this not a trivial matter at all.
They need a license to display the content, and if they ever want to sell the site they need to be able to transfer it. Seems reasonable to me. They made it non-exclusive so you can still own it, and even publish it elsewhere if I'm reading it right.
There's also a such thing as chronic depression, and reason to think that major depression follows a relapsing-remitting course, at least in some people, and may turn into or be a warning sign of developing chronic depression.

Which says nothing about the effectiveness of psychiatric treatments. But it does argue for aggressive early treatment, whatever that might mean, in the hope of halting the progression before it could become chronic.

Mental illness is fundamentally hard to study scientifically, and I'm not convinced that any of the treatments we have actually work. But it's humane to make the attempt.
That's not really the same issue as in these latest revelations, though. The latest bit really is fundamentally technical, and folks like the article author may only focus on the easier-to-understand national security interest and overlook the downsides of the NSA weakening public crypto.
Replica Strategy in Hdfs Is Not Good Enough
Make it the next Japanese delicacy. Surprised it isn't already.
Escrow.com has been the gold standard in the domain industry for years. I've personally seen hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales take place with them with no problems,
Depending on what you want for VPN. And what is Best for you.
All i cared is Pricing. And I use VPN is go pass firewall.

I use VPN.sh

And they have a new plan where it is a Pay as You go package. No Monthly fees, you buy a block of 100GB and use it for as long as you want. Top it up when you finish with it. For Light browsing usage this is the cheapest I find.

Not to mention they have 6 location for you to choose from. So you get the best speed for your local website. And You can swap in and out when ever you need to.

They have some Coupon code in LET. So check them out if you see fit.
Thanks! I also found a presentation from the Stanford Real World Cryptography event in Jan 2013 which cites Brian's work. It's an interesting read: https://crypto.stanford.edu/RealWorldCrypto/slides/gueron.pd...
I had no idea that medium owned the content. When it started, I read on HN that medium was a platform like wordpress.com but now it is clear that that is not true at all.

What are people on medium thinking then? or do they simply not know better?
I didn't read the article but I saw a documentary on the subject. It said that they take over because the reproduce like rabbits, can live everywhere (in the sea), and kill anything they come across. It's not something we caused, or at least there isn't evidence about that.
Sorry Samsung, That’s a Computer - Not a Watch.
This has always been my concern with kickstarter. I've seen some cool ideas but worried about the difficulty or scale in completing these. Say someone wants $10,000 to make a handmade widget. Depending on his process this could be doable in their estimated 6mo window (3mo design 3build). But, it's popular and raises $100k. The work increases 10 fold. 6mo becomes 30. People get upset, complain and creator lose interest.
The CFAA is a shitty law, but this article apparently can't be troubled to read all of 18 USC 1030(a). All of the subsections require something more than mere access, and all require "knowing" intent. For example, subsection (1) requires knowing access to certain national security information. (4) requires a "protected" computer, knowing intent, intent to defraud, and obtaining something of value other than simple use of the computer.

In the common law there is this concept of implied license. You don't need explicit permission to enter a public store, but the store owner can revoke permission and if you enter the store knowing you don't have permission, you're committing a trespass. That's why the "knowing" part can't be ignored in the CFAA. That's why 3Taps lost against Craigslist--the IP block gave them notice of the fact that they were no longer entitled to access what is otherwise a public website.
My startup has 30 days to live: Epilogue.
I have a game that is nearing completion that uses coding (drag and drop, think logo) with an emphasis on forks and events
http://moaijs.moaiforge.com/progrocket/index.html

(requires WebGL)
But speeding laws are pretty specific, some even with tolerances to account for radar inaccuracy. If a radar control measures you're driving over the speed limit, you get a ticket.

But the point is that this isn't specific. It's like enforcing our current speeding laws on cars that behave according to Heisenbergs uncertainity principle or exhibit other weird quantum quirks. That law might have made sense in the past, but it doesn't anymore.

I really don't want Surfing whilst Savy to become the new Driving whilst black.
No, slower doesn't mean more secure. 3DES is a lot slower than, say, AES, but nobody's suggesting 3DES is more secure than AES.
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Speeding isn't a "crime." They're civil infractions. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_infraction.
Twitter integration! Seriously the reason I prefer Sedo and BuyDomains is that I don't have to deal directly with or have my personal info given out to buyers.

I used to have my email address listed on some domains I had for sale, and after rejecting a ridiculously low offer ($40 for a 3 letter .com) had some 14 year old kid and all his buddies emailing me and calling me at all hours to try and harass me into accepting it.
[OpenSSH] Diffie Hellman key exchange algorithms (2007)
Nothing really changed when .info, .biz, .pro, .xxx, etc. hit the market.

There are trillions of dollars in marketing behind .com, and we will likely see no change in the standard user mentality (type brandname.com) for generations.
I'm pretty sure Brian currently works for Mozilla.
I have put up hacki.ng. I noticed that I have started getting dud purchase requests from buyers. I.e. the email address gotten from the purchase mail from namebox.io is false I.e. it doesn't exist. What does the owner of this service intend doing to curb this?
Hi, what's your email? I'm a recent college grad who deferred my med school for admission for a year to learn Rails. Both of my parents are physicians and I've been working in a clinical setting since the age of 15. I'm seeing many opportunities to build tools that help improve physician workflow and I would love to reach out to you for advice. Please let me know if you're available for a short chat. My email is fatoki09(at)yahoo(dot)com.
Depends on the country. It's a crime in some countries
How this secure approach benchmarks with Bromium micro hypervisor one?
Volkswagen Golf, I don't know any other details
The headline seems to be invented from whole cloth. Wikipedia doesn't have propagandistic headlines.
Amazing design!
> What is wrong with this? If people are voluntarily engaging in these activities, is that not a good thing? Well, if people genuinely enjoy those activities, then maybe so. And sometimes that is what happens. But often, my experience at least is quite different...

That's an important point which is often lost on proponents of "revealed preferences". It's explored in more detail in Yvain's essay on the want/like distinction: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1lb/are_wireheads_happy/. Here's a quote:

> A University of Michigan study analyzed the brains of rats eating a favorite food. They found separate circuits for "wanting" and "liking", and were able to knock out either circuit without affecting the other... When they knocked out the "liking" system, the rats would eat exactly as much of the food without making any of the satisifed lip-licking expression, and areas of the brain thought to be correlated with pleasure wouldn't show up in the MRI. Knock out "wanting", and the rats seem to enjoy the food as much when they get it but not be especially motivated to seek it out.
Or just have example domains you're offering right now show up faintly on your landing page.

(plug & rant response) I'm much more freaked out by burnakitty.com. What are you planning to do with that domain?
This remembers me the position the bible takes on demons: obviously they have power, and some might want to help even, except they are specialists in their stuff, a human in not, thus how you know what one to trust? You don't, thus dealing with them is forbidden outright.
I would think automating it would vastly reduce the likelihood of error vs. manual entry.
Did you know that there are other countries and legal systems?
People buy Porsches for fun or track duty. Some for both, in which I'm in the latter crowd. I autocross my cars, and do DEs -- my current MX-5 has been on at least 13 different race courses in the country, including some of the very best (Watkins Glen, Mid-Ohio, Road Atlanta, Road America, Infineon, Laguna Seca, Sebring, VIR, Lime Rock). It's also my daily when I need to use a car to commute.

As for the Cayman S, it's a damn serious car. My load out hits 60 in 4.1-4.2s with launch control, and the 1/4 mile in around 12.6-12.7 @ 110mph (and 175mph in ~49 seconds). A set of Michelin Pilot Super Sports will get it to hold around 1.1g of lateral grip (sustained, not peak). You can't go anywhere near its limits on public roads, except in a straight line. If you want sideways fun, there's the MX-5 and BRZ/FR-S for exactly that.

In a more powerful car (trust me, 325HP is still a lot in a 2900lb car!), DCTs give you a nice quick immediate jolt from the power surging in almost immediately. It keeps a wonderful engine note (and boy does a Cayman S with sport exhaust make some noise) uninterrupted and always on boil. Once Porsche changes its PDK shift levers to those like the GT3 (pull to upshift), those who want to think they're in a racing car with a sequential box can. If I could get PDK-S in a Cayman S, I would and would mostly use the shift lever.

I find most detractors of a good DCT haven't driven a car with one. Additionally, not all manuals are great to begin with, which can be frustrating when you're trying to be quick. The MX-5 is ridiculously good for what the car cost. The Type 997 911 had a great 6-speed as well. My Lancer Evolution VIII MR had an extremely heavy clutch, and I'd say the last few BMW M cars have had a heavier clutch than I'd prefer (and dev money was mostly spent on DCTs). Corvette Z06s and Vipers (last drove a third gen/ZB) require a very deliberate use of the shift lever.
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There's also http://kennethreitz.org/why-i-left-medium/

Not on Medium but relevant to this discussion.
Once in a while it would be worth a fortune to be young enough again, not used to thinking in terms of projects, roi, timelines and goals...

I keep promising myself that when this project is finished, or when we hit this sales target, or when this sprint is over, then I'll get back to that off-the-wall idea... I truly believe that anyone of any age can get back to this place. But it takes leisure time, carefree brainstorming, full creative freedom, all of which seem in short supply lately.

But the sprints aren't ever really over anymore. I don't mind. My work fascinates and delights me, and I consider myself lucky to be able to earn a comfortable living (sometimes from my couch!) while having the financial backing to pursue a brand new business venture as well. By all external metrics, it's a good life.

But I can't help but feel that pure creativity, the type of coding that's more akin to art than science, is falling away from my life. So, it's time to change that.

I suppose I need a blog for side projects, unrelated to work in any way, shape, or form.

I need to get back to why I started coding: so it wouldn't take Ness so goddamn long to walk from Threed to Fourside, so I could animate my middle school teacher as a giant pile of puke and attack with my psi powers, and most importantly, engage deeply with a team not just to reiterate, or even to create, but to discover.

I wish there was something akin to a creative fellowship for hackers. Research grants, in academia or private R&D are too tied up in the work-a-day return schedule to provide the creative space for truly new ideas.

It reminds me of a line from FDR:
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
Their pen selection really lacks something. It's sorely missing in high end pens.
Does ephemeral key exchange protect against MITM ? I don't think so. Checking for that would be difficult I think for a standrad protocol.
So um, why do they hate Haskell?

"it's politically difficult", "scary", "one person suggested banning any Haskell based solution"

Just going by his description (as I don't know much about hardware design except a single uni course ~15 years ago), it sounds as if a functional programming language like Haskell would be a perfect fit?

"one person suggested banning any Haskell based solution" -- that's pretty much literally calling a taboo on Haskell.

The article doesn't really name any reasons for this, can anyone here explain, maybe?

The only reason I can imagine would be perhaps that if you've got some seasoned veteran hardware developers living breathing verilog that are used to doing it "this way" for decades, they will be adverse to change, especially if it means learning a new programming language, perhaps in particular if it means a new paradigm or because of Haskell's pure/mathematical/function theoretical bend? (I'm just guessing here)

However (and this is where I'm most probably certainly wrong), if you're developing systems that cost 8 figures to prototype, and the current solutions are super slow and/or inaccurate to test, shouldn't even seasoned veterans, at least some of them, be able to swallow their pride?
“ignorance of the law is no defense” only applies to the "natural" crimes like murder or theft.
Borlaug won his Nobel based on selective breeding of crops. Do you really expect Borlaug to have known in the sixties what you know today about wheat / gluten? Gluten intolerance is a nice health problem to have for people who were previously starving.
Some of the OpenSSH and IETF mailing list archives about SSH also make interesting reading. Exactly why does RFC 4253 mandate Group 1 and Group 14 as the only required key exchange mechanisms? (They were defined by RFC 2412, written by someone who was "assigned to the DARPA Information Technology Office".) However, perhaps it would be better to fork a separate thread for such speculations.
Original article at

http://dot.kde.org/2013/07/04/year-linux-desktop

Looks sensible for their use case, see quote below...

"...I would argue that an 11 year old student starting with us in September 2014 will probably not reach the job market until 2024 or there about. What will Office 2024 look like? Your guess is as good as mine, but good basic skills and a logical and analytical way of dealing with computers will be good for a lifetime."
Meh.

We should all just decide on PHP and solve interesting problems instead.

We should all just decide on Fortran and solve interesting problems instead.

We should all just decide on perfocards and solve interesting problems instead.

We should all just decide on slide rulers [1] and solve interesting problems instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule
You should not be making assumptions about people you don't know.

With that said I am not trying to make a quick buck here.There are real life pain points that I am trying to solve. The longer it takes for me to create my vision the longer people will have to live with pain, suffering, anxiety (because of lack of proper information to make choices upon).

If a good surgeon who took Fees for his services die tomorrow then it would not matter because his patients who just go to another surgeon. But if this doc creates something that solves a real life issue that no one is able to solve or maybe he creates the best one.. Only then would IMO would it even matter that this person even existed
Okay, I need to eat my words here.

I went to review the deterministic procedure because I wanted to see
if I could reproduce the SECP256k1 curve we use in Bitcoin. They don't
give a procedure for the Koblitz curves, but they have far less design
freedom than the non-koblitz so I thought perhaps I'd stumble into it
with the "most obvious" procedure.

The deterministic procedure basically computes SHA1 on some seed and
uses it to assign the parameters then checks the curve order, etc..
wash rinse repeat.

Then I looked at the random seed values for the P-xxxr curves. For
example, P-256r's seed is c49d360886e704936a6678e1139d26b7819f7e90.

_No_ justification is given for that value. The stated purpose of the
"veritably random" procedure "ensures that the parameters cannot be
predetermined. The parameters are therefore extremely unlikely to be
susceptible to future special-purpose attacks, and no trapdoors can
have been placed in the parameters during their generation".

Considering the stated purpose I would have expected the seed to be
some small value like ... "6F" and for all smaller values to fail the
test. Anything else would have suggested that they tested a large
number of values, and thus the parameters could embody any undisclosed
mathematical characteristic whos rareness is only bounded by how many
times they could run sha1 and test.

I now personally consider this to be smoking evidence that the
parameters are cooked. Maybe they were only cooked in ways that make
them stronger? Maybe????

SECG also makes a somewhat curious remark:

"The elliptic curve domain parameters over (primes) supplied at each
security level typically consist of examples of two different types of
parameters — one type being parameters associated with a Koblitz curve
and the other type being parameters chosen verifiably at random —
although only verifiably random parameters are supplied at export
strength and at extremely high strength."

The fact that only "verifiably random" are given for export strength
would seem to make more sense if you cynically read "verifiably
random" as "backdoored to all heck". (though it could be more
innocently explained that the performance improvements of Koblitz
wasn't so important there, and/or they considered those curves weak
enough to not bother with the extra effort required to produce the
Koblitz curves).
This guy has one shot at learning medicine, his residency. If he wants run a trivial startup, so be it. But his first responsibility, at this time, in his training, (no he is not really a doctor yet) including his residence and fellowship.
Residents don't need to spend every waking hour focused on their job. As long as he is doing his job properly, what's wrong with doing some coding / business on the side?
I still don't really understand what people think Yahoo should have done in this case when local authorities go through proper local legal channels to obtain information. It happens all the time in the US, and as we have seen recently, the US legal channels are at least as murky as the Chinese ones and as it turns out, Yahoo was the company that put up the biggest fight against those, although they still lost.
I highly recommend reading Steve Blank's "4 steps to epiphany".
I disagree; I have a handful of domains without active sites on them as well, for projects that I still want to do but haven't gotten to yet.

I've had experiences in the past of letting a domain expire and then being "ready" to use it a few years down the line. Of course, it was invariably squatted, and had been since I'd let it go, and would cost more than I was able to justify paying to get it back.

On the other hand, I actually had a working project running on wishmash.com that wasn't getting enough traffic to make it worthwhile, so I sold the domain when I got a reasonable offer. If I hadn't sold it, though, would that have have been "squatting is squatting is squatting" as well? I could put up forums and/or tiny sites on all domains I have -- then it wouldn't be squatting either?

There's a whole range of possible levels of domain usage. I don't have any domain that I haven't spend at least a few hours researching the space & competitors, documenting implementation (and sometimes starting it), and so on.

I'm sure I won't actually build some of these projects. But I don't know which. Of course from the outside this can look the same as a simple squatter hoping for a big payout; but that doesn't mean it is the same.
It isn't out yet and isn't publically available, but Quadrilateral Cowboy will feature programming style puzzles heavily.

http://blendogames.com/qc/
American criminal law is rooted in intent. There is a strong element of selective enforcement in the process, but it's by design. The flip side of selective enforcement to jerk someone around is being able to not punish someone whose conduct falls within the letter of the law, but who didn't have criminal intent.

It's this reason that I think the book "3 felonies a day" is very weak. See some examples: http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.asp....

The examples play fast and loose with the facts and the law. In the first example, the page leaves out a lot of the facts: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2000/November/647enrd.htm. The defendants imported $4m of undersized and egg-bearing lobster tails in violation of multiple state and federal laws, and took measures to conceal the action showing their criminal intent. The page makes it seem like they were convicted based on one vague statute.

The second example leaves out the fact that the driver was fined only $75. The law in this case is very sensible: it's illegal to operate a motor vehicle in a Federal Wilderness Area. The driver did, even if he did only because there was a blizzard. Ironically, the page seems to have a beef here with the lack of selective enforcement!
Hospitals spend hundreds of thousands of dollars training residents (med students learn practically (as in practical knowledge) nothing in med school). Therein lies the cheating.
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Yeah, if you do a search for "Borlaug saved a billion" you'll find a lot of editorials with that title. There is a documentary too on YT. He is lionized for his contributions to agriculture in the developing world. I don't know the source of this sentiment, but it may well be deserved.

http://yellowmagpie.com/norman-borlaug-about/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1213295/Norma...
Do you deserve money for your old car that you are putting up for sale? You obviously don't use it anymore. Or renting out that extra room in your apartment? Why do you deserve money for that?

The person owns the domain, they can do with it as they please. So if they want to rent it out, then they can ask money for it... It's your choice if you agree to their terms and make any exchange.
I think someone needs to set up a fresh committee, and fix IPSEC, and deprecate the existing version.
Run your own botnet. Illegal, anonymous, cheap and extremely effective. There's a reason both the NSA and the Chinese launch attacks via botnets. They hide the real actors behind a veil of zombies.