skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really bad advice. Yes, you get to gloat because you got lucky...

However, I hope people stop and think before listening to you. Yes, it's really cool that Elon hit it out of the park, but at the end of the day, that's not the way to make investment decisions. The market is a fickle place. TLSA could be worth have as much in a year and FB could be worth double. Of course, TSLA will still be worth more since its IPO price.
Copy?
The confidentiality applies to the SEC. If Twitter hadn't filed confidentially the S-1 would be public (on Edgar) and everyone would be talking about Twitter's actual revenue numbers.
If you do this, will you still be able to decrypt data encrypted with the old key?
>Because those people are there to fulfil a role.

Isn't that exactly what bikini models are also there to do?

>There's looking at the boobs of someone who wants you to look at their boobs, either they are an adult model or a consenting adult who's thought "Hey, this guy/gal is alright, I'm okay with them seeing my boobs". In that situation all is well with the world, they're either fulfilling a role for cash purpose or they've decided to extend a level of intimacy.

And how's that different from what that app was about out?

Didn't it use professional models and such?

(Seriously asking, haven't read about that part)
In the post he also describes that he now uses a new process which involves a computer that has never been connected to the internet and its sole purpose is encrypting and decrypting files. Why not use it to encrypt and decrypt emails as well? That'd also potentially involve generating a new key pair.

> 3) Assume that while your computer can be compromised, it would take work and risk on the part of the NSA – so it probably isn't. If you have something really important, use an air gap. Since I started working with the Snowden documents, I bought a new computer that has never been connected to the internet. If I want to transfer a file, I encrypt the file on the secure computer and walk it over to my internet computer, using a USB stick. To decrypt something, I reverse the process. This might not be bulletproof, but it's pretty good.
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He was obviously being sarcastic.
Interesting:

...a single Python process using gevent and pymongo can copy a large MongoDB collection in half the time that mongodump (written in C++) takes, even when the MongoDB client and server are on the same machine.
But if the environment suddenly changes you die out.
Just because something looks "engineered", doesn't mean it is.

A perfect example is the eye. An organ of great complexity, but one that is very easily explained by logical evaluation, as well as existing living creatures and fossils: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwew5gHoh3E

If you're a software engineer, I hope you understand how procedural systems and algorithms can transform data and functions. Similar processes take place via chemistry and biological interaction. Conway's Game of Life is a good example of a simple system giving rise to complex interaction and patterns.

Complex beauty can arise from the interaction of systems, but if you say to yourself that it "must have been engineered by something greater than me", you settle in your mind, and shortcut around critical thinking and never progress toward understanding. And that's a great, great shame.
I get your meaning obviously, but fundamentally tis a strangely Manichaean outlook: they were developed naturally.
I agree that people are making idiotic claims

But did you know how many fingerprints are currently being gathered and kept by US government?

Here's a 2008 article. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/03/25/us-security-finger...)

They take a lot of fingerprints, but don't seem to catch many people.

> The U.S. government has been collecting digital fingerprints and photographs of nearly all non-citizens aged 14 and up entering the country since 2004, officials said, in a Homeland Security program called US-VISIT, at a cost of $1.7 billion.

> [...] On an average day, almost 14,400 international visitors undergo the fingerprinting process at Kennedy, officials said.

> More than 2,000 criminal and visa fraud cases have been detected by the screening process, introduced in response to security concerns following the attacks of September 11, 2001, U.S. officials said.
Roughly they've scanned fingerprints for 36,792,000 visitors (who may be repeat visitors), and caught more than 2,000 people. (Between 2001/9/11 and 2008/9/11.)
Seems like simply combining the fingerprint with some sort of quick gesture could get around this. They couldn't force you to try all possible gestures any more than they could force you to try all possible combinations of a lock (example taken from the article).
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Might not work. It's not like the lots were vacant before they put up the most recent buildings.
Thanks for the call, for listening, and keep up the great work!
Feds Fight To Prevent NSA Disclosures In Criminal Cases
Only millions of people everyday... Is this a real question?
> it seems at least mildly surprising that we've never observed at least similarly structured creatures.

Its not surprising that some survival-valuable features (especially when they fulfill a function for which there are other mechanisms) arise and are preserved and further developed only once, since them arising in a species in which they are survival-useful is a matter of chance, as is their preservation.

So, its not surprising that features we haven't seen in other species is continue to be discovered. Its remarkable enough to be newsworthy and interesting, but not something that fundamentally challenges the expectations and understandings we have from basic understanding of evolution.
There's a 3-video lecture on camouflage by Roger Hanlon (who took that video). The part about color-blindness is in part 2, here[1].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtIiSXRv5no&t=33m23s
I read about Chris back in '94 or so and was moved. I sold everything I had and decided to head out into the Colorado wilderness.

However, while working and saving for my trip I saw Phish and ended up going on Phish tour '95 instead.

Whether you head into the wilderness or follow your favorite band - IMO life on the road is a great building block for life.

There's hardly a period that goes by where I don't somehow think about my time spent on the road.

(...and I still see Phish every year ;-))
I would guess this is for the reason posted in the article: the Python code is multithreaded (sort of, gevent) but the C++ code is only single threaded.
I'm struggling to think of a subject I didn't find remotely interesting. There were a handful of teachers whose presentation I found unengaging, but those were relatively few and my biggest problem with finishing school was narrowing my field of interests enough to choose a major and complete it.
I know I'm still a cryptographic neophyte, but why doesn't he use four times the bits?
> My personal hypothesis is that people in America (parents) give way too much responsibility to the school to educate their children and expect magic to happen from people who are merely paid to take care of your children. Quit having kids or take more responsibility in teaching them. My mother is a teacher too and I recall she spent more time teaching me stuff at home before I even went to kindergarten and that definitely helped keep me ahead of the curve. Sure, her ability to teach helped her a bit but surely it is not that hard as a parent to take more of an active interest in your child's education rather than flopping helplessly and whining about schools and such. /end rant

Do you have kids? It's not that simple. Picture this: you're a smart (at least according to the people around you) guy tht wants to give the best possible education to your kid by teaching them things at home to give them an advantage at school. You like learning and knowing things, and can't wait to pass this on to your kid. And then your kid turns out to be the complete opposite of you: an extroverted, extremely social creature that has a short attention span and who only wants to be around people and has very little interest in learning about how things work and stuff. It's really hard to connect to a kid like that - no way to spend hours teaching them things.

I used to say things like what you said until I experienced it myself. I was a bright kid who was always willing to learn, and thought I'd grow up to be the adult that teaches that bright kid things. Well, it didn't turn out that way. When your child shows so little interest in learning new things, you just give up after a while and hope it will somehow work out after a few years of going to school.
You meant Windows Millenium (ME)
Certainly, living a normal life and bringing up a family is meaningful. I think the point I am making is that it wasn't meaningful for him.

Fitting in with society is good in some ways and bad in others.

Here are some concrete examples of situations when it's bad to be a sheep:

- in my home country (Northern Ireland) people tend to vote for one of the two sectarian parties. In the 2010 election only 7% of people votes for non-sectarian parties. The problem is that the sectarian parties are supporting violence, intolerance and ignorance (some directly, others indrectly). Most people (over 90% in this case) are sheep, so they simply vote whichever tribe they were brought up in, even though it is tearing apart their society.

- Recently I was chatting to the directors of a local club who had perpetrated a scam (or "loophole" as they called it) to avoid paying a few thousand dollars in sales tax. I'm pretty sure the scheme is illegal, and the treasurer just resigned because of it. The previous president also thinks it is illegal. Anyway, when I was chatting to these guys they were saying how well democracy works because 67 people voted for this scheme and only 3 voted against.

For more example have a look at the second Iraq war, healthcare in the USA (and partisanship in US politics in general), the housing boom, not to mention silicon valley with its "me too" VCs investing in a raftload of crappy startups that aren't doing anything original.

Chris unfortunately died before he had a chance to really live his life - he was still trying to figure things out and discover his purpose in life. However if he had lived I think it is quite likely he would have made some great achievements.
Zeroconf works on all platforms, there are multiple implementations available. Avahi is one of the most popular in opensource world.
Since "acting ghetto" is code for "being black," yes, they most certainly would be.

This kind of stuff happens all over in this country: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-sues-lucky-strike-l... and http://chicagoist.com/2010/10/14/foodie_rant_-_sometimes_dre... being two examples I remember.
Ask HN: map temporary subdomain?
Is there a service which allows me to map a temporary domain to a static IP, heroku-style, i.e. temp123.app.com? I want to host something without registering a name. I guess I'm looking for a bitly with names.
Audio pioneer Ray Dolby passes away
Than Austin?
In this world, agency is a privilege that's hard to measure. I feel like sometimes people underrate their own and mythologize their self-madeness, but overrate that of others and pathologize them as lazy or cowardly.

It's a known tendency called the Fundamental Attribution Error.
IIRC there was something in Hyperion about this, but it wasn't a focus, just some back-story on why Martin Silenus was brain-damaged for some time after his emigration from Old Earth. (Bad cryo on a slow-ass spaceship.)

Probably not what you're thinking of... It sounds like something Asimov would have written but nothing comes to mind.
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Why do you call bonjour crap?
Yes, that's the point. As people spend more of their time and attention on social media relative to other media, where will those branding budgets go? Not to Google (well, actually, that's why they bought YouTube...but not to Google Search).

Twitter is one of the few outlets where brands can effectively communicate their message online. That's the theory, anyway. You can argue that Twitter is a bad medium for branding but arguing that it's a bad medium for direct response advertising is missing the point.
Fedora 20 Linux distro delayed for December 3
Do you know of one with a QWERTY keyboard?
I think GP used significant in a sense more like "newsworthy", in that, ceteris paribus, the perceived significance of a trait is inversely related to the frequency with which it has been seen in the past.
I haven't written Java in a while and I've never seen any other examples of JAX-RS, so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. That said, in my opinion JAX-RS looks uglier, less clear, and more verbose than Spark, and I'd want an alternative to JAX-RS were I ever to write Java web code.
You might be interested in knowing that your comment consists only of sentence fragments, and that you are on Hacker News and not 4chan.
Regulations seem to me a lot less magical than the free market. I live in a country with a lot of regulations when it comes to working time and it does not seem to harm. It is one of the strongest economies in the world. I guess the market can live with it.

There are strict limits for extra hours. As an employee working more than 48 hours per week is allowed only as an exception and working more than 60 hours per week is simply put illegal. Extra time has to be balanced with free time. We also have a minimum of 24 payed vacation days. Most people have more.
Ahhh yes, The Katrina Refugee Boogeyman raises its head. Figured it would make an appearance at some point. Houston has always been a trigger happy city (I grew up there, 3rd generation) with high crime zones particularly in the Southwest section. Katrina refugees didn't make that happen.
(i)

Yeah, you do need RequireJS. I've been considering a build of lit that comes with RequireJS bundled up within in. There are future plans to remove the RequireJS requirements completely, but for now it works and I'd rather not rewrite a bunch of functionality! Seriously, most of the really heavy-lifting for the client-side system of dependencies was incredibly easy due to building on top of the RequireJS plugin architecture. Take a look at the source on GitHub: https://github.com/williamcotton/lit/blob/master/src/lit.js

What I normally do is this:

<script src="http://www.corslit.com/components/requirejs/require.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
<script src="http://www.corslit.com/components/lit/src/lit.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>

Again, not super elegant, and I'd love feedback on a better approach!

It is also on bower! bower install lit

(ii)

The feature has not been released yet but lit will be great for production use allowing for static, versioned builds to be compiled for either direct linking or downloading. Also, because it is built in to RequireJS it will be able to compile with r.js. I'm also thinking of looking in to a browserify source transform. It may in fact work out of the box with https://github.com/jaredhanson/deamdify but I haven't looked in to this just yet!

(iii)

Every time you want to use a lit module you'll have to wrap it up in the loader in a manner similar to RequireJS. I've been wrapping all of my code in a single call to lit. It depends on your development style!

(iv)

There is a really rudimentary API for getting all of a users published modules but it is so crappy I don't feel like sharing it yet, haha.

(v)

Support for CoffeeScript and other languages that compile to JS is something I would love to explore depending on how many people seem to want it! I guess we'll just have to see.
Did you even read what he said? There's no overlap between your scenario and "someone who hasn't really accomplished anything outside of the protective cocoon of their parents' home(s) and income".
Paleo diet vs dogers's game
The Museum of Natural History was built in the early 20th centuryish not 1995. Does not portend well.
RPubs: Easy web publishing from R
There is nothing suspicious with that.

He has worked previously in mostly corporate and private context, so 2048 is just fine. Now he works with people and data NSA wants their hands on and he wants the data to be secure also in the future. It's just reasonable to move to 4096 key sizes.

http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pgp-faq/pgp-faq-keys.html#key-size

>Dr Lenstra and Dr Verheul offer their recommendations for keylengths. In their calculation, a 2048 bit key should keep your secrets safe at least until 2020 against very highly funded and knowledgeable adversaries (i.e. you have the NSA working against you). Against lesser adversaries such as mere multinationals your secret should be safe against bruteforce cryptoanalysis much longer, even with 1024 bit keys.

See also: http://www.keylength.com
> Except that the new iteration is pretty much making random changes.

E.g., avoiding ivory tower planning and instead using empirical, in-the-wild A/B testing.
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Congrats, Twitter. Another product that was mocked as a "toy" becomes revolutionary and finally going to raise money on public market. I use twitter everyday and it is my primary information network. I'm sure they will be successful!
Groovy's much slower than Java. The statically typed mode shipped in Groovy 2 a year ago was written by one lone programmer they brougt in, is still buggy, and isn't even used in the Grails codebase afaik.
Sure, but that seems to suggest a meta-reason: the standard utility included with the package isn't asynchronous [sort of orthogonal to threadedness] because it would be a PITA to write an asynchronous utility in C++.
So "think of the children" trumps "think of the Secret Police"?
With linux, is there any way to compromise the USB stick used for the air gap? AFAIK the Stuxnet virus was originally spread via USB stick, however I reckon that it involved Windows machines that are known to execute files on USB sticks.
It was just tongue in cheek snark on snark. And short theories can be based on hour, day, week, month, quarter year. So it's not always a long term bet.
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The policy forbids plain white T-shirts? What.
Only with the old private key.
Copywriting. All the character descriptions and such.
What I learned bootstrapping a six-figure business from school
Aha, interesting.

One pattern I've noticed repeatedly is that websites with both Facebook and conventional signup options convert worse than websites with just a conventional signup. I'd assumed that was the usual "don't give people choice" issue, but I'd not considered the confusion problem.
What's the intent of people watching television or reading newspapers? Ads were a distraction, but people never minded too much. And advertisers were happy, because they got enough people with intent to make it worth their while.

Twitter may not have direct understanding of intent, but they are pretty good at knowing interest, which is sufficiently correlated with intent to make advertisers happy.
Considering the fact that most people at CRYPTO, Usenix Security, IEEE Security and Privacy, and other prominent cryptography and security conferences do not have PGP or S/MIME keys...it would not be surprising if Schneier was not using PGP on a regular basis.
Tomorrow is Programmer's Day
Wow, Robocoin is the truth.
Interesting. I had never heard this quote.
Some of Dell's hardware seems to be getting better again. I just purchased the Dell XPS 12" and I'm mostly satisfied with the computer (although it's a bit expensive).

However, there are two things that still drive me crazy about Dell. The first one should be easy to fix which is that the website is absolutely awful. It's slow, many links 404 and overall just a very frustrating experience. It took me awhile to get my computer ordered because of how slow the site is and I almost gave up.

The other issue is the fact that I have to wait about 2 weeks for my computer to be built and shipped to me. Most of their computers they don't even allow many configurations so why can't they have pre-built machines ready to ship. The very day I ordered my Dell, I ordered a Macbook Air for my wife which shipped in 2 days.

Dell has been pretty consistent force on the server side, but I'd like to see them regain some strength in the consumer laptop market again.
View source here: http://identiweave.herokuapp.com

This is a basic, but functional example!
Have you seen Rich Hickey talks ? he mentions the notion of ease in one, and the notion of mutation in many others. An html browser right now is a large stateful tree, imperative programming so it is easy to think about and write code this way, while FP orientation would need to rethink things, less easy, but probably simpler. In clojure data structure are immutable, you "only" compute new, I think that's how they designed a web app in http://pedestal.io/ (clojure[script] based system). If you really care about accepting small grained input you'd probably write some read eval/validate print loop on the client side before then sending a main request for a http json patch.
I think it's already very well-done: https://ads.twitter.com.
Interview with Jacob Cook of arkOS
Contemplating, or perhaps risking (at one's choice), death brings appreciation of life. And possibly, what's important.
There's plenty of reasons to not do shorts, but the FB IPO might not be one of them.
Yes. We're a port city, we're the fourth largest city in the United States, and all of this in a non-student population (sorry longhorns).

It's part of why this is such a baller place to be living right now.

EDIT:

To wit:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/07/01/195909643...
The Twitter of Tomorrow
Years ago, a classmate of mine built a rig out of a receipt printer and one of those old handheld scanners to provide an "air gap", though it never really worked (sort of an art project at the time). Might be time to revive the idea...
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html

It was in 1997. Apple wasn't doing so well at the time.
For those trying to say this proves nothing... I'd say this review proves it:

"She knows the door guys, owner, DJ, everyone. She had a reserved spot for 25-30 people. As soon as the party kicked off, the trouble started. Every person in her party that tried to get in, that wasn't white, was stopped at the door."

Combined with the profile history and look of it, it seems Ashlee M is a real person. Also according to those here claiming they live in Houston, it's very believable and (logical, yet immoral and illegal) that this is happening.

Given all the evidence here I'd be willing to bet a substantial amount of money that my girlfriend (who is black) and I would be turned away from vintage.
Does the reason for that ever come up in a conversation? I thought that everyone working in security used PGP a lot.
IIRC some piece of news surrounding all this stated that the NSA considers anyone using cryptography to protect their communications to be people of interest, whose dragnetted correspondence will be stored indefinitely. I'm curious if the NSA prioritizes these people according to how strong their keys are. I imagine that the logic would be that someone using 4096bit keys is either paranoid or really really has something to hide.
Did you even read the thread? He's either equating "hasn't really accomplished anything" with not having a degree, or he's utterly off-topic.

And if someone actually does have wealthy parents who would always help if needed, does that mean they'll always be "less than adults"?

Every possible way of reading the comment is so patronizing and elitist I can't believe you would seek to defend it.
Well, now Mr. Dell is the stock holder.
Who you follow on twitter shows intent far more than liking a page on Facebook.