skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. Have a place where you can work, distraction free.

From working remotely for the last year, I've found that basically any table is a fine remote work spot for me. Kitchen table, Starbucks, whatever. I have learned that I don't get appreciably distracted by ambience or even really by light conversation[1] (unless doing something particularly out-of-the-ordinary in terms of difficulty, in which case it's lock-the-doors time); if I did have concentration issues, don't you--y'know--think that I wouldn't do the things that triggered them. Because I'm an adult and I'm competent? The assumption that people aren't is why, to me, these edicts read as kind of wacky.

[1] - Hell, I'm getting a coworking space because I find that that ambience and that light social friction makes me better at what I do. =)
Good luck, but I don't think you'll be successful with that, because I think notability is an extremely important part of the glue that holds the Wikipedia project together. Without it you not only get a torrent of pointless, trivial content that readers have to sift through to find the real stuff, but you also lose the critical factor that makes the editorial challenge of Wikipedia tractable; without notability, you simply have too many potential articles to fact-check, and no way to fact-check them.

About 15 years ago some friends and I started a company whose technical premise boiled down to taking IRC and replacing the static tree-based "routing" system it has with a real dynamic routing protocol. No more netsplits! Arbitrary topologies! It was so simple! Why would anyone want anything other than a biconnected IRC? It turns out that the moment you lose the static tree property, the whole system goes to hell. All the sudden, messages aren't (and can't be) reliable, because the network can change out from under them while they're being forwarded. So you figure you'll just build a simple reliability scheme for messages to ride on. Oh, wait: IRC is a group messaging system, and not only is the distributed systems GMS problem not particularly easy to build in a "realistic" network, but providing reliability on it is essentially the multicast reliability problem, which is itself so annoying that it's part of why IP multicast failed.

My long-winded point is, sometimes something that seems like an obvious weakness of an existing system is actually fundamental to that system's viability.
The seriously insensitive character comparison you're looking for is NFKC normalization (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence).

You would probably be able to normalize all your strings before putting them into your database. You'd lose no functionality unless at some point later you really did need to distinguish "C" from "﻿Ｃ".
It's not a free market when the players get too big.
The problem Osvik and Tromer are pointing out isn't that the VPN doesn't rekey; it's that the AES implementation it uses can't prevent a localhost attacker from learning its secrets by watching the footprints it leaves in the cache.

There is no reasonable solution to that problem that doesn't involve eliminating the side channel. The problem isn't the key management; it's the broken AES deployment.
Are you asking whether you can compress an RSA key?

Anyways: don't use 8192 bit keys. Whatever kills the 4096 bit keys is going to kill RSA along with them. Honestly, I think 4096 bits is also kind of a you're-kidding-yourself key length; if attacks on 2048 bit keys became tractable, RSA is probably in serious trouble.
Thanks! PVS (Principal Variation Search) is an improved version of AlphaBeta. How much improvement depends on the quality of your move ordering algorithm. http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Principal+Variation+S...
Teacher union doesn't want any kind of performance based system - they're the villain.

Even if there is variability of pay, at least society would be far richer, so being poor wouldn't suck so bad.
Korea to get 'invisible' skyscraper
"Terrorism" is, admittedly, a very ill defined term. Academics have been arguing for decades about whether or not State actions against their own people can be labelled "terrorism" or not. Given that, I won't quote a dictionary or textbook definition, but rather say that I see them contributing as a part of a larger system that seems to meet some definitions of "terrorist", at least if you believe in the existence of "state terrorism".

It seems to me that their intent to be as clandestine as possible makes them distinctly non-terroristic.

Yeah, I'll admit that's an arguable point. I haven't even made up my own mind on the "intent" aspect.

All told, labeling them a "criminal" organization would probably be better, but I think it would be wrong to overlook the role they play in allowing the US government to use fear as a tool of control.
I am reasonably sure that many of the people who believe they have been abducted by aliens (or seen them in their room with them) have probably just experienced sleep paralysis. I say this knowing that when I was younger I had a few episodes of it that still haunt me to this day.

I can remember at least one episode where I woke up into this state to a black tall figure essentially in my face.. giant eyes and the whole bit. I couldn't move and given that this was the first time sleep paralysis had happened to me, thought (and it truly felt) like the entire experience was real. If I remember correctly I broke out of the state by somehow getting my eyes to close in fear and then waking up what had to have been just a couple minutes later. Obviously there was no alien right in my face but it sure felt like it and bringing this story up now I can still 'feel' the experience all these years later. Odd how the brain works.

Edit: Ah, I'm not the only one who thinks most alien stories can be explained by this http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/06/science/alien-abduction-sc...
Important caveat: fail2ban does not work for IPv6 connections yet (there are patches floating around though)
The first time I locked down a server I found iptables to be a little intimidating. If you're on Ubuntu then ufw is extremely easy to use - it's just a front end for iptables.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW
"torrent of pointless, trivial content that readers have to sift through to find the real stuff"

I don't think people page through online encyclopedias that way. I'm not notable, if I had a wikipedia page I don't think it would link from any page that actually exists today. How could that ever bother you? I don't think you'd come across it unless you googled my name and it took you to my wikipedia page in which case it would seem to be doing good.
When I was in third grade I started getting sleep paralysis. Back then I learned the trick for me was to relax. I would pop right out of it when I relaxed. I don't know if you've ever tried this, and I know that it's not the easiest thing to do when it's so terrifying, but it really worked for me.

The only time I ever broke out of it (using the power of will instead of relaxing) I went into the most terrifying nightmare I ever had (I didn't really break out.) Anyway, I was lucky in that I outgrew sleep paralysis.
Nah, it doesn't get me down. I have found my path. In fact, the internet has been as amazing for me as it has been for this kid. I learned (and continue to learn) my craft through the internet before anyone thought that creating actual courses for this stuff would be a good idea. In some cases I was lucky to find documentation.

I'm able to live anywhere in the world within reason (the Antarctica is too cold, Manhattan is too expensive and North Korea is too restrictive) and I have lived abroad for five years now. I think travel and living abroad is overrated, but I made the choice and I was able to do it.

I don't feel down about myself. I feel down about kids who aren't "genius" but have just as much potential. However, I'm a huge fan of luck created through a bit of hard work, and this kid hit it. I hope he gets into MIT.
There are a lot of people who don't know what this is like; as someone who used to regularly experience this, I'd like to share some of my experience.

I have been in real situations that legitimately threatened my life and safety, and sleep paralysis consistently gave me comparable levels of stress and fear in each episode.

Imagine having a bad nightmare, so bad that you wake up from it. But when you wake up, your eyes are open and you cannot move. You see things that your mind logically knows cannot actually be there, but they are real for you. The REM dream state continues, overlapping reality.

In one case I woke up one my side to a large, dimly lit figure on the side of the bed, staring at me with red eyes. It just stared at me, while I physically felt something at the bottom of the bed dragging my body off. I couldn't move or even shift my head.

I was aware that I was awake, that this wasn't a dream anymore, but that this sort of paranormal situation should't be happening. I couldn't move, couldn't struggle - then the thing staring at me unhinged its jaws wider than should be humanly possible and screamed at me at the top of its lungs. It sounded like a human mixed with the shrill cry of a velociraptor from Jurassic Park.

I just remember trying to yell but not making noise, and feeling like I was drowning. I knew I was awake but the supernatural sense of wrongness was almost more terrifying than the hallucination.

Then, after what felt like minutes of struggling to breath, and the figure almost eating me, it all vanished, and I shook my body so violently I threw myself off the bed (seriously). I think I actually ran to the lights, turned them on and sat shuddering on my bed in the blanket for a while.

It's no joke. I used to regularly have these, and I sympathize with anyone who has had them. They're primarily caused by stress and anxiety (and have a high incidence in people with PTSD). It's not like a nightmare where you can convince yourself it wasn't real, because the things I hallucinated were as real to me as the lamp and nightstand.

Obviously I should say I didn't consume anything the night before. It's almost debilitating, and caused me insomnia for quite a while.

It was hard to describe to people - they are not the same things as night terrors. I would talk to people about it and they would say it was a bad nightmare. But it felt so real, it was like that scene from the Matrix with Neo and the bug.

Afterwards, details were always fully lucid and clear, and never became fuzzy. I eventually realized that the level of obsession I would get into when trying to get people to understand that it wasn't just a nightmare mirrored the hysterical reactions you would see from characters in Nightmare on Elm Street or the Exorcist. I never really believed in things like alien abduction, but I can fully understand why repeated exposure to sleep paralysis would cause someone to seriously question reality.
What I think you're saying is, "the paper's point is that side channel attacks can be used to determine the key."

I understand that... that's the whole point of the paper, after all. But wouldn't rekeying defend against this attack? And therefore how is what I originally said wrong (and hence how is it safe practice to reuse AES keys in general)?

(I'm only trying to understand this.)
Considering that this "landing page" is only an image and a button, that fact that no JavaScript or CSS was used isn't very impressive.
When the battery gets low?
Show HN: Pretty Web and PDF Resumes with Bootstrap 3
Wow, great work. Does the AI play perfectly?

Edit: Looks like the answer is no, since I drew it while playing second. One option to improve the engine could be to give it an opening book (this is what they do with chess engines).
As an alternative to ( 4 ), only expose your SSH servers over IPv6.

Initially I thought this worked because the overwhelmingly huge address space, but even when I published come-get-me DNS records ( ssh.example.com ) there was not a single IPv6 attempt versus hundreds of IPv4 attempts every day on the same host.

Edit: there is plenty ( ~ 8% ) of inbound IPv6 web traffic to my hosts, so it's not a case of IPv6 being obscure. It just seems that none of the bad guys are interested.
But you just told me we don't want to punish teachers for low test scores and the solution is flipped classrooms.

Prove that teacher quality and not curriculum design or cultural factors is actually what's holding down education in poor districts. (You do realize that teachers don't get to choose what they teach, right? Curriculum is set centrally.)
Here is my own resume showcasing the project:

http://bliti.github.io/resume/

By the way, I'm available for hire...
Just forget about any internet privacy altogether. A new era has arrived.
Shouldn't a language for sharing UI be human readable like QML ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML#Basic_syntax ) instead of machine readable like XML with its claustrophobic tag soup mess, flow killing end tags, and so on?
I've had a demonic child standing across the room, a calm and unfrightening peasant sitting next to me, a woman watching me, and the girl from the ring standing nearby. The most terrifying one by far was the demonic child. I don't remember seeing any witches.
So, today, when I searched for a notary public in my area, expecting to have to trawl through yelp or angie list type crap to just find a local place, and instead I was pleasantly surprised with an ad for a place very close to me that offered everything I needed (I needed more than the notary service), they were lying to me? Odd, it sure seemed legit.

I know what you mean, you are talking about the 'soapX cleans brighter!" which of course is a contentless sentence intended to deceive, and I am with you there. But I think what is awesome about things like Adwords is it gives the small local business the ability to reach the people that are looking for them. Instead of dealing with some horrible chain I ended up at a tiny mom-and-pop shop, found out they had other services I've been looking for unsuccessfully, and now they have a guaranteed customer in me. I think that is great for me, and great for them, because they only paid a tiny amount for my click, and got a customer from it.

It's not perfect; I've just done several searches just to see what will turn up, things like 'kayak rental half moon bay' and such, and am not getting very good ad results. But sometimes they are spot on, more spot on than the google search results.
35% = 28% income tax + 6.2% social security tax + 1.45% medicare tax
Protecting your family could actually become an addiction/obsession depending on its intensity. Someone could be so intent on protecting their family constantly that they avoided sleep, or spent much of their money on weapons/security system upgrades, or prevented them leaving their home. In that case, all of those would certainly be negative repercussions.
I used to suffer from this pretty consistently for years until I researched it on the web and understood what it actually was. From then on it reduced to maybe once a year.

Funny how the mind works.
Not sure if I'm reading the code correctly, but it seems like it mixes the hardware random bits with the output of what would be generated otherwise. I.e., Linux does not add the the RDRAND output to the entropy pool.

This means it might take more time to generate the required number of random bits. So not trusting RDRAND means a process might block waiting for random data.

Then again, hardware generators may be affected by external forces - other than the NSA. For example, CPU temperature.
Very nice.

Unfortunately there will be Chinese clones of them on ebay within a year, he needs to grow fast.
Thanks! No, it doesn't play optimally even though this game has been solved. That's not really fun, either. What it does is to try to think like human and at the same time as deeply as possible. If you click on the number, it will show more stats. The computer lost more than 20 games up to this point.
This game is not fun to play.

The graphics and the UI are solid. And apparently, the AI is also solid.

Good work. How about a human vs human version?
Dude, Get your ass to SF so I can buy you the many beers I owe you!

I get truly excited when I see your replies, I'd love to banter in [inebriated] public! With that said, may I please make the humble request;

Yoou have contributed a shitload of awesome comments on the state f "who-the-fuck-are-we-kidding" with respect to encryption and privacy in light of what we actually know now related to the NSA....

Would you please create a post, in an Explain-Like-I-Am-Five-Years-Old manner on both the state of the capabilities of the NSA, the state of current encryption tech/methods we rely on, AND what the heck I, as and individual, could/can/should do about protecting myself.

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I can speculate all day long about all sorts of things, but I am asking - given the NSA-Fatigue I suffer from - fr your help.

I WILL PAY YOU FOR THIS SERVICE; Set the price at $20 for the best recommendation. Crowd-source your network of people who have enough info to contribute to the recommendation...

Aside from smashing my machines and cancelling my power utility, I have no clue how to regain privacy at this point.

Then we will drink, and e Merry, Pippin and Sam!

EDIT: Tawny Port May be responsible for this post.
First off let me say that I do not condone the street harassment of women nor the physical attacks and crimes of rape and assault and other stuff. If there is a danger of any of that violent stuff a woman should call 911 if threatened with it.

Secondly on the streets even men are hassled by other men. I agree a stop should be put to it by educating people not to do stuff like that.

Thirdly I doubt an 'app' can make a difference. It is ripe for abuse, if a man just stares at a woman chances are she will call him a creep and then snap his picture and report it. He might be staring at her because he is trying to recognize her face and see if he knows her from somewhere and never goes up to her and hassles her. I can see some women just taking random photos of men they don't like and reporting them, and there is no appeal process. Also some men who look like other men will get a bad reputation. If a man wants to do something violent to a woman, this app won't prevent it. I'd suggest self defense classes, if walking find someone to walk with and walk in groups, carry pepper spray and other stuff to defend yourself, and if threatened call 911 and report it.

Fourth this 'app' use might have some of the criminal men on the street decide to start attacking any woman they see with an iPhone because a woman had snapped their picture and sent it in to some creep database.
I agree. It does not have much to do with smarts. It is mostly about discipline, and personality. People with big buzz-word titles have been less than stellar in my experience. Worse is that they have tried to sabotage projects because they end up looking bad.
Because it makes the selectors less efficient. On individual selectors it probably doesn't make much of a difference (for most of them at least) but add it all up and you can have a significant impact on performance for large DOM trees.
Quantum Computing For The Masses
I think your larger point is right re: sheer calories.

But, there's a significant difference in what people want to do or think they do), and what they actually do.

The fact that sugars and starches spike blood sugar, which later falls rapidly causing hunger pangs, makes it very difficult to stay on plan. These people feel like they're starving.

Alternatively, a person eating fish and veggies soaked in olive oil never experiences the spike, burns fat slowly, and can stay hunger-free for most of the day. I.e., what may be a higher calorie meal in the short-term, allows one to take in fewer calories over the course of the full day... since there is little desire to snack.
Also "Being Poor" by John Scalzi

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/

I was deeply moved by that piece.
Ughh. Been there, done that. Thankfully I haven't experienced it since I was a young teenager. You are right about the whole thing being as real, or even more real than reality. It is almost a primal feeling of reality if you get what I mean.

I don't know about you, but for me even thinking about these episodes has me a bit on edge remembering them. Given that I think about 20 years have passed since the last time I had one, that just goes to show how significant they can be.
I see semantics is much inclined to OOCSS (object oriented CSS) which is actually good because the project is cleaner, works really great for large websites with lots of pages.

But it's poorly executed. The good deal is, to use Bootstrap + OOCSS. Ive had really good experiences and full control of the project by this method.
…and thus the internal contradictions inherent in Objectivism are laid bare.
for me it's more easier to read json than html formatted one.
Give a 15 year old kid an entire summer vacation and some equipment to run wild with a passion of building electronic gadgets and I bet you would be surprised at what that kid could do. I'm not even sure English being a second language would be as big of a barrier with a technical subject as other types of courses would be. What's the word for computer in X language? There's a good chance it's computer. That's a oversimplified silly example, but the point is that some areas of study are more universal than others.

I cringe to think about how much time I had when I was that age that I didn't put to good use. An sophomore in MIT might be challenged to find the time to make the bed properly, let alone get lost in the pursuit of the subjects that are covered in Circuits and Electronics. I was a horrible student in college, not because I was dumb (okay, I take back what I said about me being an idiot, I'm about average) but because I didn't manage my time properly. As a kid, I didn't have that problem.

ETA: And as for the numbers of people who have taken that test, it's not like it's the SAT or the required placement exam to get into a good college in China. If there were truly big stakes attached to that exam then there would be a lot more than 340 people out of 150,000 getting a perfect score.

Again, I'm happy for the kid. But I think the real story here is that kids can accomplish a lot, we just need a way to get them engaged.
on WP, some whole articles are carefully crafted artworks of spam, where vanispamcruftisement movement learned the encylopedia language and you never notice. One day someone will write "vanispamcruftisement manifesto", why spam is a positive moment of western civilization. Spam techniques of once become mainstream ad types with non-relevance diminished and design improved and cost increased. Many social media are flood of spammy posts about 'self'..
Coder, a Linux image for the Raspberry Pi by Google
Yes! Games are great.

A fun easy framework for game-making is LÖVE.
https://love2d.org/
You can show the kid some games made using LÖVE (https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Category:Games), do some of these tutorials (https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Category:Tutorials)...

Even if you don't know Lua, it's so easy to pick up (http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/). And figuring out a new language with the 8 yr old could be cool too.
ty, i didn't know that was the case. are there other alternatives?
netstat -an shows a lot of stuff. I think here all you need is

netstat -ntul

(Thanks "child", I did indeed initially not have the -u there. You should.)
Not only wrong, but Wikipedia usage is thriving in emerging markets - thanks to Wikipedia Zero (modeled off of Facebook Zero which despite data consumption cost mobile user $0). Fascinating I say...
His analysis was better than mine in that he weighed content by persistence. Still, for what it's worth, I found that when edits were weighed by length, the 1000 most frequent editors dominated.