skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, 2048 is certainly safe unless your includes direct attention from the NSA itself, where I'd ordinarily tell you that you've already lost.

However it looks like Martin is trying to be successful in exactly that scenario so I suppose that's a good tip indeed for this case.
Chase requires two factor authentication.
Because people have freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly, but FSM forbid they speak while assembled!
I judge that it makes little difference.
Android and several other phone OSs are Linux-based. Several Linux distributions are working on achieving the same level of hardware support for ARM SoCs as they currently have on PCs. At that point it should be possible to replace Android with Jolla or other Mer-derived OSs, Firefox OS, or Ubuntu on a large number of devices. Not quite a perfect world, because some devices will have locked boot loaders, but getting closer.
Overpopulation Is Not the Problem
You know how we argue about stuff like bracket styles and virtually identical text editors? Other professions have their own Very Important Debates(TM).
You can view the old videos here: http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html It is worth watching a few to see how well it is taught.

It is more mathematically rigorous with an emphasis on the theoretical fundamentals, especially compared to other online offerings that are more applied. It may not cover as many learning algorithms.

Here is a previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4206445. And, a comment about the book https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353736

And, here are some of the impressive comments about the professor:

> Yaser Abu-Mostafa was (by enormous margin) the most effective professor I had at Caltech. Despite being such an expert in the field, he understands clearly when a concept is particularly challenging--and what about it makes it so. [...]

>What Andy says is absolutely true. This machine learning class was easily the best class I took at Caltech. Prof. Abu-Mostafa got a standing ovation at the end of the course the term I took it. I wish I could have taken more of his classes. \ It was also fairly difficult -- the assignments were hard, but at every step, you could look at what you'd done and say "I know why I'm doing this, and I can see how this works." \ I remember at the end of the term he took several students' notes and made copies of them, so that he could compare the students' notes with what he was trying to convey, and could know if he wasn't teaching certain parts of the class well enough. [...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3704782
> It has to my knowledge never happen, but it would be interesting to know if the cop could be held liable if someone dies from a overdose from those drugs.

From some quick researching, it seems the government in the US is more and more prosecuting the dealers, or even the person who gave someone the drugs if there is a death. You give your friend Bob some methamphetamine, and Bob dies, you're more than likely getting charged with second degree murder if they can prove you are the source.
I'd love to see a version of this post or the "Securing a Linux server" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6384603) post but for OpenBSD or FreeBSD.

I'm surprised more people haven't been mentioning the BSDs after the NSA / GCHQ revelations and in the drive for more security.
Which rights exactly are you wanting to take away from corporations?

The provision of making corporations people gives them the rights to not be subjected to searches without warrants, to not be spied on by the NSA, to not be punished for speech, to own private land. Are you really in favor of taking these away?

By the way, this would not only effect the big evil corporations that you despise but the mom-and-pop shops that you love and all non-profit organizations, PACs, charities, churches, etc.

Is their corruption in corporations? Yes. Does that mean we should take away their rights? No. Just as lots of people say really dumb things that we don't like, we don't take away everyone's freedom of speech.

This would have much bigger consequences than most people realize.
Good question, but I believe the answer is part of the increasingly powerful movement afoot in OSS to focus attention on Linux exclusively, even down to the level of merging onto single implementations of many libraries and reduce fragmentation within the space. AFAIK Martin is supportive of that concept in general, although perhaps he'd re-think that to consider e.g. OpenBSD in light of his recent refocusing of effort.
Even if we had a healthy market, which we don't, the people who lost their jobs don't have "marginally less" income. They have zero income. They are not happy.
How do you define "good enough"?

The general idea is to use a machine which has minimal opportunity to be compromised through other activities. There have been known to be exploits that allow a compromised VM guest to compromise the host, and obviously if you compromise the host you can compromise all the other guests.

Using a separate VM is worse than using a separate physical machine and better than doing nothing. Whether it's "good enough" depends on who you are. Who are the plausible attackers? What do you stand to lose if it goes wrong?
Suppose you have a job that pays $2000 for 40 hours a week, ie $50/hour. You might want to work only 30 hours, and get paid $1500/week. But your employer has fixed costs per employee: insurance, and the IT, HR, finance and management functions. This can be as much as 2X, ie another $2000/week. So they are currently paying $100/hour for your services. But if you go down to 30 hours and get paid $1500/week, they would still be paying $3500/week, so their cost would go UP to $116/hour.

You might be able to reduce all these administrative costs, but splitting work up among more people has its own cost. Remember Brooke's law, "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - the same effect is in play.

[Editted to fix arithmetic. This makes the example less dramatic, but still significant given the profit level of many companies]
E-gads. Is this what HN has come to? Regurgitated political tripe of the week?

Flagged.

Kudos to the other commenters who are trying to un-fuck this. I just don't have the time or patience for it.
Everywhere, pedigree counts.

Silicon Valley ∈ Everywhere, whether it likes it or not.
If people took the time to build a custom solution using CSS/js to display the images, why not just pre-process them instead? IMO respecting the orientation tag by default wouldn't be unexpected at all.

Btw, images are oriented correctly on Mobile Safari.
> First of all I do not trust any hardware. It’s impossible to verify that the hardware doesn’t have a backdoor and randomness looks random even if tampered with.

Well if you can't trust any hardware, how can the author trust any off-the-shelf computer and CPU to generate the private key even if he is using Linux+GPG? For all he could know the CPU could contain a backdoor that performs the necessary arithmetic and operations incorrectly (in the process making the key weaker).

He is also trusting his CPU to do the session encryption correctly (even with his external smartcard). Perhaps the CPU could leak information about the session key to another processes, allowing people to decrypt your communications?

Now I trust my CPU and hardware, especially because we have little alternatives. Perhaps it would be better to use an external smartcard to generate the private key too, because the physical hardware is orders of magnitude less complicated than a CPU/computer, so you could verify the hardware contains no backdoors by examining the physical circuits using a microscope (I presume this would still be very hard to do but millions of times simpler than that for a modern CPU).
And you'd get your computer to insert the m-spaces for you.
The problem is...they are people because they are composed of people. The logic you use to defend the idea that groups of people shouldn't be able to participate in the electoral process extends just as easily to unions, non-profit political organizations like MADD, and even political parties. The fact that they exist for making money is irrelevant, unless you would like to argue that making money is not a legitimate human interest.
> "There are many ways that breastfeeding and breast milk protect babies’ health. Flu can be very serious in young babies. Babies who are not breast fed get sick from infections like the flu more often and more severely than babies who are breast fed." - http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/infantfeeding.htm

Talking about "babies" here is too generic. Babies get antibodies from breast milk for maybe the first 4 ~ 5 months, but they don't after that, which is when talk of vaccines start.
SICP translated to JavaScript
Sections of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs translated to JavaScript by Professor Martin Henz with executable examples.
> Why can't whatever software writing those tags just rotate the JPEG blocks instead?

Because that would make the camera cpu subsystem $0.50 more expensive.
A decent number of people at the top of the food chain in Silicon Valley come from finance, a world very much driven by pedigree. We tend to forget that from time to time, most of us here (I would imagine?) being engineers, and fewer of us being financiers. But pedigree has always counted in finance. Though it counts slightly less today than it did 30 years ago, it still counts for quite a lot.

To this day, there are circles one simply can't break into unless one comes from a top Ivy/Stanford undergraduate program or business school. These circles dominate recruiting at top investment banks and consultancies, which in turn feed VC firms and executive positions at many tech companies. It's not impossible to land one of these roles without a degree from, say, Harvard Business School. But that degree will open doors that are, by default, closed to most everyone else without extraordinary hustle.

Another very important point: many of those doors opened on campus, not afterward. Having Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc., on your resume looks lovely. But that's almost incidental to the real benefit. The real benefit is that the top banks, consulting firms, and recruiters show up on those campuses and pay greater attention, hire more interns, and so on. The advantages begin at school and start accumulating afterward. This is the secret sauce that MOOCs will have a hard time replicating, at least until the top firms become more open-minded about recruiting.

The importance of pedigree will change when the demand for pedigree changes, not the supply. This is why I remain optimistic about the prospects of online courses in the long run, but skeptical of their prospects to really shake things up in the short run. So long as top-tier job recruiting demands pedigree, pedigree will matter.

I think demand-side investment by organizations like YC, 500 Startups, etc. -- many of which seem fairly indifferent to pedigree -- will make a bigger impact than will supply-side attempts such as MOOCs or their equivalents. At least for now.
Kudos on recommending Petzold's CODE.
8 Intellectual Property Items Every Startup Needs
But have you ever wondered why its always the feeling of a ghost or (some form of human/human-like presence)? Why not a snake or a lion, tiger etc.

I have sleep apnea and used to wake up short of breath some times. Before I got a CPAP machine, there was a period when I experienced sleep paralysis episodes. In some cases I experienced the sounds of fast running steps approaching my bed sometimes that of a child, sometimes adult, which used to terrify me (of ghost presences. These episodes also coincided with my wife and kids away on vacation and I was alone at home, which added to the fear) and wake me up after breif sleep paralysis experience. After lot of post-self-analysis I figured out that my brain must have been replaying events from past to try to wake me up so I could recover from my short breath/sleep apnea situation and get more oxygen to my brain. .... my son used to run into our bedroom early in mornings after waking up from his bed (early days of his sleeping in separate bedroom), and we used to wake up to his running and jumping into our bed. Some times my wife walks up to my bed on weekends when I sleep late, to wake me up.

I believe my brain was using, what were familiar ways of me waking up to, and trying that on me to wake me up to protect me from my low oxygen situation brought upon by sleep apnea short breaths. Nevertheless, this was kind of a vicious cycle for a while even with me fairly certain of my analysis. The terror of waking up from partial sleep paralysis to such ominous 'other presence in room' irrational feeling caused a bad case of insomnia...it was not easy to fall asleep. And the insomnia in turn worsens sleep apnea and sleep paralysis episodes.

The CPAP machine helped a lot. Nevertheless is absolutely dreadful and irrationally terrifying.
An interesting micro-site – it seems very much more aimed at people who know BLS data already, and much less aimed at coders. The FAQ answers the question "What is an API?", but doesn't even have a list of the IDs required in order to get any data whatsoever out of that API. It does however point to this page which is helpful, if not comprehensive: http://www.bls.gov/help/hlpforma.htm

And the API itself seems quite simple and easy to use - so it looks like good access to important data.
What does make me sad was that I thought (being extremely naive) that the Crash of 2008 might have a positive effect on technology, by reversing the "talent graveyard" effect of finance.

The crash, and the policy response to it, are basically the reason why The Startup Scene looks like it does. We have banks full of cheap capital from QE but nowhere to lend it because aggregate demand is weak, large corporations with lots of cash on hand from cheap labor and asset appreciation, but nowhere to spend it because aggregate demand is weak.

Banks can't just sit on the money because they're not allowed to, and large corporations can only use so much as dividends or cash reserve before people start to wonder if they have any business plan at all.

The current startup scene is mostly an arbitrage trade on this scenario. You acquire liquid capital on the cheap, convert it into a little unit of fixed capital (i.e. startup firm) and sell it at a markup to a motivated buyer (i.e. cash-rich BigCorp who desperately needs the appearance of a forward looking business plan).

And really, this is the kind of inefficient market where something like credentials would become more important.
If they are only hitting a port 22 a few times, who's wasting the ISP's time with abuse requests... I suppose its probably those guys with Class-A blocks and too much time on their hands.
If typesetting aesthetics are actually important to the document you're creating, you should be using software like LaTeX that figures out all the spacing for you. If you're typing up a word document for functional usage, it doesn't matter how many spaces you put in there

(Yes, I am giving you permission to go all e.e. cummings in your emails)
The author's proposed solution to custom-typeset to avoid this is not sustainable (because it's sensitive to reformatting) or practical.

Isn't this what computers are for?
Last one about the politicians not understanding poor people -- it's the same reason as to why the TARP money all went to big corporations -- your Senator doesn't know any poor people or small business owners.

He doesn't know any poor people, because he's more than likely rich (they have an average net worth of $10m) and has no reason to associate with them. And he doesn't know any small business owners because the US Capitol complex supplies everything he needs -- haircuts, dry cleaning, catering, car service. And the lobbyists that come to see him? Defense industry, insurance industry, agribusiness, etc. Not Jim's Handyman Services.
The Internet Is Deathly Silent. Here Comes Voice.
That also explains the unusual damage to the windshield. It looks like a small mob took bats to it. I suspect if this rage was directed at teh goog it would have had much more damage. Nothing to see here. Human error followed by a very poor judgement call and some vigilante justice. I hope everyone turned out ok.
City of London Police Launch Intellectual Property Crime Unit
"I think it'd be fun to sit down..."

I can't think of any way to guarantee getting a child excited about programming.

But if I were coming up with a list of places not to start, ideas of what adults think ought to be fun would be on it. So would sitting down.

Anyway, I will give making a list of positive stating points a shot.

() It is a long term project. The kid has been around computers and knows they make pictures. There's no way to make a miracle moment for an 8 year old. They've seen an iPad.

() Focus on the young adult ten years away, not trying to create a HN front page prodigy.

() The interesting part of programming, and the part about which we are passionate is not the typing. It is the ideas.

() What children love is being taken seriously and learning. The best way to do this is by removing the shiny screen from the equation and having a conversation - give them words to add to their vocabulary and ideas by which to see patterns in the world.

() Be present. Throw a ball or kick one and instead of lecturing on technique, talk about what computers can do. Only sit down at a screen if you are asked to demonstrate. It's got to be natural...come to think about it, going for a walk is a good approach.

Plans to get a child excited about x are pretty much analogous to the management methods of the PHB.

Sharing your passion is great. But it's your passion not the child's. Maybe some of it will rub off and a seed will be planted. But it is a seed. It needs to be given time and space to grow and though it may produce a mighty oaken programmer, the odds are the child will grow to a maple or dogwood or redwood or beanstalk.

And the only healthy approach is to go into the relationship being ok with that.
Confirmed. Traceroute:

C:\Users\Marco>tracert vjs.zencdn.net

Routenverfolgung zu e6720.g.akamaiedge.net [23.63.133.38] über maximal 30 Abschnitte:

1 41 ms 28 ms 26 ms xxxx
2 32 ms 47 ms 33 ms xxxx
3 28 ms 120 ms 275 ms 88.134.199.1
4 29 ms 73 ms 31 ms 88.134.203.141
5 35 ms 37 ms 74 ms 88.134.201.157
6 46 ms 31 ms * 193.178.185.22
7 25 ms 66 ms 113 ms 23.63.133.38
I applaud your approach and don't know whether your conclusion is correct.

But if it's not, it's for reasons right in front of you - TC ain't doing any investing. An invite to participate at Disrupt is less like a "most likely to succeed" award at a regular high school and more like "best hair" at a magnet high school.
The actual communications protocol is already standardized, so it's more a matter of connectors and form factor.
At the bottom of the list is CodeHS[1]. I've not had much experience with many of the others but speaking from experience my son who is 8 has enjoyed the courses on there.

[1] http://codehs.com/
Buddha would approve Dropbox's attachment-less email
Phone like phone we see today uses very highly complicated chips and its connections to each functional modules. Something that can be detachable easily can be really surprising.

Mobile phone SoC chip (Application processor) is heading into very uncertainty area as fabrication process require too small transistors now. Hope that dealing super sensitive chips, can be guided by chip experts.

Putting everything physically close in one chip is also cost and integrity issues. More functions in a smaller area = less die cost. Blok based components would have to consider how to compete cost where $10 everything possible SoC is ready.
FBI compromised Tor hidden service to bust largest Child Pornography Ring
>that figures out all the spacing for you

What are you even talking about? Yes Word figures out spacing for you too.
I hate double spacing. And you can dismiss that as a personal preference, but there's a problem with it, objectively speaking. Normally, whitespace is collapsed in HTML and it's a moot point. But not in WordPress.

Now, let me pick on patio11. He uses double spacing in his articles. Not a big deal, right? But the extra spaces causes unintended indentations in paragraphs. I know it shouldn't bother me, but it drives me bonkers. For example, I see it in the second paragraph here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...
https://blog.habets.se/2011/07/OpenSSH-certificates hopefully explains how to set up CA for SSH
On Windows I use KeePass 2 [1] with the KeeAgent [2] plugin. The keys will be protected by your master password, and it will act like pageant so most tools will automatically recognize and use the keys. You can configure it to automatically let all applications use the keys, or first prompt you before providing the key to the user.

You can keep the database file on an USB stick or even something like dropbox or owncloud [3].

[1] http://keepass.info/index.html

[2] http://keepass.info/plugins.html#keeagent

[3] http://owncloud.org/
Cassette Tape Format Is 50 Years Old
The theory is that the rotation info is metadata, taken from a separate sensor on the camera, so it should go in the metadata format which is EXIF, just like the timestamp/ISO/focal length.
There seems to be a lot of wasted breath in these comments about IPv6. Given that its unlikely that your provider even supports IPv6 on their networks, and that globally the traffic via IPv6 is nearly non-existent, I wouldn't spend too too much time caring about it.

Less than 2% of traffic to Google is IPv6:
http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html
Even the attacks CloudFlare sees are mostly DDOS: http://blog.cloudflare.com/ipv6-day-usage-attacks-rise
Traffic through Akamai is minimal:
http://www.akamai.com/ipv6

Maybe someday it makes sense to spend a lot of time around IPv6 defenses, but today is not that day.
> Hard work

'Replaceable work' you mean? It's far easier to engineer good software than to pick a problem worth solving and actually fund & execute on this idea.

This replaceability is why you get 0.05% - take no risk, come late to the party - your reward will be less.
Doesn't typography overlap quite significantly with web design ? Isn't that the profession of many of the people on this site ?

Lack of knowledge of these things is one of the reasons that much of the text people read every day is presented with a system (HTML/CSS) that has complete disregard for typography[1]. Unlike LaTeX for example where you can set your inter sentence spacing to whatever you want, because Knuth took the time to learn about typography and create a system that has the flexibility required to lay out text properly[2].

[1] smallcaps, kerning, spacing, justification, the list goes on and on

[2] for pretty much any value of 'properly' you can imagine
Boom, what a closer.

Deutscher, eine Frage - warum haben die Piraten so wenig Erfolg? Im Gefolge von NSA, usw., meine ich.
"Getting in into an ivy league school is usually challenging, unless you're born into money, you have to figure out a plan and correctly execute it in order to get in--just like meeting the right people, starting a business, and then getting funded"

You do realize that the planning for getting into an Ivy League school has to start at around age 14, right? At that age, whether you'll be able to "execute a plan" to get into a school (or even have the perspective to care what school you get into) will 100% depend on whether your family is rich and privileged itself.

Poor kids don't think about going to Ivy League schools at age 14. And neither do rich kids. Only rich kids' parents do.

Get real.
I think pedigree is largely contingent on luck: http://chester.id.au/2012/03/02/does-leadership-matter/

I'm already one of the 1-2% of the luckiest people alive. Billions of people have nothing like my opportunities.

Bugger Stanford. I was born to middle class Australians, I can take it from here.