skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read an article a few years back about how Twitter could potentially be of great value as a peer-to-peer PSP. It's more of a long shot (and they probably should've started a long time ago) but I did find it an interesting model. I just don't see advertising work at the scale that they'd need to justify a ginormous valuation (just as FB isn't very convincing with their ad network).

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/6/how-twitter-will-be-wo...

Also, just realized that Square is set to go into this direction.
Evolution is the ultimate proof of the power of agile engineering--ship on a schedule, test with real data, then work on the next iteration, keeping the good and discarding the bad.
10minutemail.com and yopmail.com too! :-)
http://gigaom.com/2013/09/12/twitter-files-papers-to-go-publ... - interesting; secondary valuations are in the $14-15B range per GigaOM. I'm a believer at some level.
They don't hire dropouts because they can't afford any more useless people on their staff other than themselves.
> Advertising makes money when the audience has intent.

That's why nobody advertises on television.

When I watch TV, my intent is to see what antics the Simpsons are up to this week, not to go to Best Buy and trade my cellphone in for a newer version or buy a Coke or go to a movie theater an watch a Seth Rogen movie.
> We humans are at the right-hand end of the curve.

Do you have any proof to that?
Judging by the amount of unfarmed land available on Earth it looks like number humans is nowhere close to being "too many".

> "Population Paradox"

There is no paradox here.
It's survival of the fittest in its purest form.
If increasing reproductive desire is a key to species survival, then species with stronger reproductive desire would survive.
If you don't care about reproduction much - your genes are less likely to survive.
I guess I'm old, because it still just seems like a random little microblogging site to me. What's the big deal? And why is there no open federated version? I'm not really interested in using a proprietary, single-vendor communication network.
I think it's an interesting point you raise about entrepreneurs, and I think that is why I feel a connection to Chris. I certainly know that I seem to think differently from that vast majority of people. That is useful in coming up with novel ideas, but it can also make it challenging fitting into society.
I'm sorry, but if you think you can climb Everest without oxygen, and die in the attempt, you were a dumb-ass. Full stop.
My mother lives in my house and survives partially off of my income. I was making more by the time I was 21 than either of my parents ever had. I'm less than an adult because I don't have a degree? What the hell is wrong with you?
Normally i'd let it go, but i actually would like some clarity on your intent here. Are you implying that Schneier doesn't use encrypted communications on a regular basis, that PGP is impractical, or both?

(and to be clear, my intent is not to bait, i'm actually curious)
Thanks for the feedback! Those are great ideas, I will test them out!
Houston is a far, far more diverse and integrated city than those other ones, I venture.
How much of this applies to creating a game? Honest question.
"And if they do become entrepreneurs, the companies they start will be far less successful than those started by degree holders." - suggests a zero-sum scenario which, by my anecdote back of the napkin assessment (which is all that seems to be required to be of merit), is ridiculous, pure and simple.
The great example of Jobs and Gates are poor examples to follow. Gates only dropped out once he was getting some traction on this business ventures. Jobs dropped in on creative classes even after he left college, and he credited these classes with much of what made it into the Mac years later. He also made many of his business contacts and early business while he was an employee at Atari. Neither one quit college and started a business with no business plan or income.
A fictional re-telling of the creation of the Web
I see what you are saying but like you said, smoke jumpers prepare. While they might jump into hazardous conditions it is not done without a risk:reward ratio well above 'adventure'.

When best laid plans fail they are forgiven because there were at least plans.
The danger is that real racism, which is a scurge we should all fight against ends up being lost in a sea of complaints, accusations and suggestions of racism.

The reality is that there are a few vocal people with might powerful shoulders out there, well, the shoulders should be strong for the size of the chip they seem to carry on it, and their complaining tends to drown out the quieter voices of those who do actually suffer.
The thing I've heard most often about Hemlock Grove sounds something like this, "It's really, REALLY bad! Oh man, it was so terrible! I watched the whole thing in like 2 days and it sucked! I can't wait for Season 2--it's gonna be terrible!"

(only slightly exaggerated)
Yep, this is illegal. From an article in the Houston Press( http://www.houstonpress.com/2011-02-10/news/getting-past-the...)

Although they are private businesses, in the eyes of the law — specifically the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — bars and nightclubs are "public accommodations" like hotels, restaurants and movie theaters, and thus forbidden to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin. Private clubs, institutions such as country clubs that are selective in membership and only open to members, are generally exempt.

However, "Even if you have a doorman, a bar is more like a restaurant than a country club," says Dale Ho, Assistant Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York City. "So, generally speaking, a bar that treats patrons differently on the basis of race is in violation of federal law."
I'm aware of MongoDB issues with scaling, and I'm trying to avoid it as much as I can, but I still can't find any other alternative that offers geolocated queries.
On a related note, how's seasteading working out?
CloudFlare CEO: ‘Insane’ NSA gag order is costing U.S. tech firms customers
Well, I was just explaining why I used the word beauty.

Maybe whatever created these gears was being tortured by an evil master until it made something satisfactory.

I really can't say for sure...
Ah, that makes a big difference then.
As it's commonly called: "endpoint security".

If his computers have ever been compromised, his PGP private key would likely be as well. Considering all the news about US gov spending millions on rootkits, it was likely a wise choice to generate a new one in case a previous one was likely to have been compromised.

I'd guess Schiener would be a target of interest by some state (as is anyone working with encryption it seems).
Content clustering of disney.com
The anti-M$ hate & paranoia that HN seems to have inherited from /.

Are we all to feel embarrassed? Maybe next you'll start flicking the lights?

How is someone pointing out what seems to be a really obvious setup indicative of "anti-M$ hate and paranoia"? It sounds like you're the only one who is paranoid.

Such setups are common, and in this case it does look like an employee on the group remembered an old account they had (the "it's the only thing you're missing" then a gratiutious link to marketing material). No harm in that, really, it's just a bit funny to see. Is it hateful to point out what is obvious?
If we loosen "lost" in "he lost his private key" to include "lost control of", then that still works.
But the article has no point.

Well, it's point is Christopher McCandless is a celebrity, lets work out how he died.

There is little science going on here, other than using science to work out how celebrity McCandless died.

Image if those scientists used their knowledge for real pressing issues that affect many people.

Not saying scientists should be boring and not allowed to do superficial things like all people. But take it for what it is.

Which is probably why people go back to the bigger picture.
Same reason MySQL sticks around when there are alternatives that make it harder to shoot yourself in the foot: Easy to get started, works well enough to make an MVP.
Yes, I do agree that what he did was daring. In my book, a bit crazy. But that can be a good thing, in measured doses.
God cannot feel pride, for that would imply the possibility of failure. God is beyond most human emotions, probably all, for that reason: our emotions imply their opposites, while for God, there are no alternatives other than what is -- which is by definition perfect.

Mind you, I'm an atheist, so this is just my understanding of the argument.
Not to be mean, but in the dev circles in the valley, I tend to hear the exact opposite. Just what I've gathered from the rumor mill.
> While its an unscientific poll, I have found it hard to find anyone I know that watches television who doesn’t love at least one of their hits: Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, and Mad Men.

One of those shows has only a few episodes left, while another has one season remaining.

Also, AMC doesn't produce Mad Men or Breaking Bad.
Is he really afraid of 2^n/2 brute power of quantum computers or this is just overkilling of overkill?
Well they couldn't use gcc, because that's also GPL and they'd have to release its source, but if I'm not missing some more nuanced part of the license, they could probably compile with a fork of clang.
Houston is pretty much the perfect example of the once-touted multiethnic future of the US. We've got a large number of people, a large diversity of socioecoethnic backgrounds, and we are a much more integrated city due to lack of zoning and only relatively recent gentrification.

Additionally, note that there was an (arguably recent) influx of folks from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina--that had lasting economic and demographic impacts on large parts of Houston, especially around Reliant.
Eventually you will need help from someone unless you're a genius who can figure out and have all the time of the world to wonder it.
What's interesting is that their replacement - essentially friction pads, IS expected to last the remainder of their life (and for other similar insects). I would have expected gears to last longer than something relying on friction, especially at those levels of energy.
Hi NJ :D could be CT but figured it'd be New England at that point. Good luck though, but either way there are a lot in NY so maybe some luck there.
Or, similarly:

- Snowden et al asked him to create a new keypair with very strict cleanroom practices[0] to be sure as to the sanctity of the private key. It's trivial to bump up the key length when doing so.

[0]: See the August 18 NYT article on Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald for a peek at the "operational security" that Snowden demanded. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-sno...
Alternatively, it could mean that while he uses it often, he does not often use it for things that are actually important. Faced with unusually important communication, he may have decided to create a new key that he could be confident was still private.
At which point your PC costs $250 only if your time is worthless.
I read a great book a long time ago.. wish I could remember the name.

Basically, sometime in the future, Earth is dying, so everyone has to leave to some faraway planet within 100 years.

The first intrepid explorers leave at T-100 years, expecting to be the first to arrive. A few years later a new craft leaves that can travel faster and will get there sooner. This goes on and on until it comes down to a betting game of how late can you wait until leaving, while still being the first to arrive (and thus claim ownership/leadership, etc.), with people coming up with all kinds of hair-brained schemes on the best time to actual leave.

IIRC, it kind of turned a little into Hitchhikers Guide kind of ridiculous near the end.
Reposting the configuration settings:

Incoming IMAP
Server: imap-mail.outlook.com
Server port: 993
Encryption: SSL
Outgoing SMTP
Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com
Server port: 587
Encryption: TLS

For anyone on Android having trouble setting up the outgoing SMTP settings on their mail account like I was: set the security type to STARTTLS instead of SSL/TLS.
It's curious that he didn't sign his new key with his old key. Does anyone have a good explanation for why he wouldn't want to do that?
There's a fine point between good and bad discrimination when it comes to bars and clubs and the like--a great deal of the attraction of many bars is having a particular vibe or culture, and if an owner wants to cultivate that in a particular way they should be free to do so.

It's thorny.

EDIT:

Why do you disagree?
The evolutionary pressure of "avoid being eaten" is enforced via the visual circuits of their predators, so it makes a certain amount of sense.
How is a pilot a waste of time, talent, and money? Pilots are basically the MVPs of TV shows. In many cases it's less wasteful to develop and test a pilot than to develop an entire season of a show, only to have it fail. (Of course, even pilots are imperfect indicators of a show's potential for success, but now we're diving into a deeper rabbit hole and a digression).

Nobody's claiming pilots are cheap, efficient, or anything of the sort. But they do serve a purpose. In the TV development business, it's better to know if a $1M pilot is going to bomb than a $10M+ season is going to bomb.

Netflix is in a unique position to change the way development is traditionally done, however, and over time, if they're successful, they may start to eliminate the need for traditional pilots -- or at least figure out how to make the pilot a more truly MVP, i.e., a lot quicker and less costly. But for the time being, they're paying above-market rates for development and production, and if anything, they're taking bigger risks on production and development than networks do.

It's all part of a gameplan, and I respect that. They're buying a lot of short-term risk in hope of nailing a sustainable, scalable, long-term model for original content. It's basically what HBO had to do back in the day, and what AMC had to do to become what it is today. This is why Netflix doesn't need to buy AMC; Netflix needs to replicate AMC (sort of), and eventually replace AMC (among others).
> That's why nobody advertises on television.

Companies spent $140 billion in advertising on US TV in 2012, up 3% from 2011. TV is about brand and awareness, not direct response.
Indeed. My living room XBMC/Steam PC has a Logitech wireless controller, and Steam highlights controller support as a feature in the game pages these days. It's pretty common, especially given so many games are cross-platform.
Agree.

That's different than "racism".
Luckily there are plenty of people that don't agree with you, who are willing to try and push the limits of what humanity can do.

We're all going to die, you know.

Stats on deaths with/without oxygen:
http://faculty.washington.edu/hueyrb/pdfs/jama.pdf
Exactly. The "no one ever got fired for buying IBM" principle.
Do people still actively use twitter?
Most people don't use PGP on a regular basis. I'm use PGP a lot, more than I think most HN readers, but most of the people I talk to (even in my own field, which is full of secrets and adversaries) don't have PGP keys.
According to recent YC posts, we should be more worried about venture capitalists stealing ideas.
You're fitting the data to support your preconceived ideas. That never works out well.
>That's just FUD. And saying baseless things like "that's never how it works", that's just fearmongering, not contributing to the conversation. It doesn't even make sense.

It makes perfect sense -- you just need to follow the historical precedents, instead of looking for some inevitable logical reason why that would happen.

Technologies introduced with the potential to control and restrict people (or users) have always expanded their scope and reach.

CCTV was something banks used. Now it's all around modern cities. GPS tracking was once something exotic. Then millions could be tracked through their mobile phone. Then you even get people voluntarily participating in "location aware" services, transmitting their location 24/7. Walled garden software was few and far between all through 1980-2010. Now it's the sole standard on iOS, de facto on Android, and has crept in desktop OS too. There are tons of similar examples.

>There are millions (hundreds of thousands? you get my point) of fingerprint readers out there.

There were also "tens of thousands" of tablets before the iPad. Still noone cared about them. Mass sales are an enabler. It's another thing for "hundrends of thousands" (far fewer, I'd say) fingerprint readers to be out there in places and devices noone sees excepts when he travels or if he works in some special places that use them for security, and another thing to have fingerprint readers on 1 out of 3 or 4 americans (the iPhone market share IIRC).

>Suddenly Apple builds one in, an additional feature, and people start inventing conspiracy theories.

I don't care much about conspiracy theories (and I dislike the use of the term to ridicule legitimate concerns, as if we were talking about fake moon landings or UFOs). This comment thread was about some not far-fetched potential implications.
I'm a software engineer. I work down the street from Twitter. I hear nothing but great things about their devs.
It doesn't. In this context, "...that I believe all living things", the words "I believe" can be directly converted to "I have faith without any evidence".
I realize this is pure snark, but fixating on daily price fluctuations is no way to think about a FB short thesis. It's always long term play if you're betting against the company. You're waiting for the market to come to its senses, which can take a long time.
Actually, yes, read the previous blog post that this one is a follow-up to.

As a long-time resident of Houston, he's tied himself into a well-known issue that's been talked about for some time [1][2][3]. (Heck, he probably linked a bunch of these in the previous article.)

The point he's left out -- nearly every specific incident that's been discussed has revolved around a specific set of bars, that are, umm, largely seen as catering to the "bro" community. (I guess that's how you could call it.) There are a lot of popular bars/clubs outside of the area of these specific bars/clubs that have never been known to be racist. Note how nearly every bar he references in his data is within a mile or two of each other.

I think the implied extrapolation out to all of Houston is a big stretch, and certainly doesn't follow my experience having lived here for nearly 20 years. But then again, I'm not looking for examples of racism. I'm certain they're easy to come across on all sides of the issue (black on white, white on black, black on brown, white on brown, and so forth) if you were to go looking.

[1] http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2011/01/racism_and_houst...
[2] http://www.yelp.com/topic/houston-racism-and-profiling-at-cl...
[3] http://houston.culturemap.com/news/sports/02-11-12-15-44-new...
> hasn't really accomplished anything outside of the protective cocoon of their parents' home(s)

In my mind, college is usually an extension of the parental protective cocoon.
Michael Dell once said that poorly performing Apple should return money to stock holders and shutdown.

What goes around..........
I would argue that Excel's sole strength is that it directly features the data to the user. It is not that things are declarative that is nice, it is that the data is all you see. Because that is all a lot of folks care about.

Indeed, the way in which many people populate spreadsheets is far from the functional way. It is typically much more imperative. They literally have a list of commands from someone for how to make the chart or tabulation they are interested in seeing appear.
The account is needed so you can grant authorization to others to access your files. EncFS is great if you are the only user. If you want to grant others access to your encrypted files, you need an authorization / authentication mechanism, which is why there's an account needed - for permission control.

But if you're the only user / potential accessor of the files, single-user strong file-system based encryption works.
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Well, you really don't know that he would have survived. He put himself in a precarious position and as others have said, he could have succumbed to any number of other dangers.
Check out http://www.biglumber.com/ as well
I think the announcement was a setup, but not the person who asked the question. It was pretty obvious that someone was going to ask that question, you could bet on it.

The person writes this:

>Skepticism be damned, I'm actually an actual person who asked an actual question. I saw on Twitter that Outlook.com would be doing an AMA, and nobody asked the IMAP question yet, so I did. I've been a lurker on Reddit for several years.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1m926j/we_are_the_outl...

Now, it's possible it's an employee, but I wouldn't rate it as "most certainly" like you did, it was obvious that someone was going to ask this question.
Great game! Do you have short overview of what you used for making this game (frameworks, database, hardware, etc.)?
Could it be that the patrons are acting ghetto, which begets the venue the ghetto moniker? I don't doubt that there is some racism going on, because racism is still coursing through our veins, but certain behaviors make "white women" feel uncomfortable and unsafe, just as much as they make many other people feel that way. The whole problem is a rather reflexive and self-fulfilling one.
Not only uglier, but a lot sloooooooower.
Cue all the folks who got burned BADLY on shorting TSLA.

Disclaimer: TSLA stock owner.
http://biglumber.com/ is any oldy but a goodie. There's room for improvement in this area.
Except that the new iteration is pretty much making random changes.
There's no need for a quantum computer. Everyone should be using at least 4096bit RSA.

1024bit RSA keys can be factored with conventional non-specialized hardware (read: CPU's, not even GPU's) with GNFS.

IMHO, 2048bit RSA keys can be factored by custom hardware that the NSA has developed. I posted my reasoning for this hypothesis in other hackernews threads. A very quick/terse run down of the main key points - 1) NSA is known to use customer hardware (they have their own chip fabs. You can extrapolate performance gain from things like GPUs, FGPAs, and Deepcrack 2. Al Qaeda uses 2048bit RSA for internal communications 3. Most corps, diplomats, criminals, and normal people use 2048bit RSA either directly (SSH keys, Website Certs, VPNs) or indirectly (CA's still use 2048bit RSA certs valid until 2020)
A beginning programmer will think that's an infinite loop,
but anyone familiar with tequila will know better.
If I invest, can I get a Verified Investor badge?
Funny coincidence, I'm watching TWW for the first time and that was the last episode I watched today.
Right, my argument is that the imperative form is much more easily reasoned about in this example. It is not as easily decomposed, but the question comes down to how much it needs to be.

To wit, I don't know how I would actually fill out the implementations of what you described such that it really worked. Without actually just manipulating the state of some browser thing.
The complexity is 2^n/2, but we don't know (afaik) if the quantum computer is also way faster for a single computation than standard computers. In that case, the more the better
Yes, my personal pet theory is that something really smart made a 3D printer-like life machine, and then gave it to thousands of other not-so-smart individuals - who then came up with all these crazy and inconsistent life forms on Earth.

Some designed Bengal Tigers, and others designed Aye Ayes.