skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the deep economic codependence of China and the US, to say nothing of the historically limited range of China's territorial ambitions, there is precisely zero need for the threat of mutually assured destruction in order to keep the peace between China and the US. In fact, we could unilaterally disarm and suffer absolutely no increase in risk from China for the very obvious reason that they are not going to nuke their biggest market.

Nor are nuclear weapons needed to keep the peace with Russia, which is a shadow of what it was as the Soviet Empire. Indeed, even then their primary concern was containing the American threat. As far as the arms race is concerned, that was very much something America started. It took several years for the Soviets to join, and several more for them to even try to match us, which they never came close to doing. Unlike the Space Race, where we were playing catch up, the arms race was one in which we were ahead, by a very wide margin, from the very beginning. They were responding to our lead. We were not responding to theirs.

I know Americans don't like to think of themselves as the belligerent party, but in the case of nuclear weapons pointed at the USSR, we really were. Even the Cuban missile crisis, which we like to think of as an unprovoked escalation, was a direct response to our own truly unprovoked escalation (placing missiles in Turkey aimed at Moscow). Having seen the error of our ways (well, sort of) and more importantly, having seen the Soviet Union collapse entirely, we can safely dismantle our arsenal, knowing full well that the biggest threat to world peace following WW2 was always us.

Indeed, having first gotten rid of our own, we could help the increasingly impoverished Russians make the world safer by helping them get rid of theirs. The truth is that we were the ones who brought the scourge of nuclear weapons upon the world. We were the ones who sparked the Arms Race. And we remain the only country to have used them in combat. Frankly, leading efforts to rid the world of these things is the least we can do.

Clinging to outdated and conspicuously unworkable "balance of power" arrangements simply isn't in our interests. And having removed the biggest threat from the table, without demands for reciprocity, we not only project massive confidence, we also make others look foolish by fearfully and pointlessly holding onto theirs. Truth be told, we all have better things to do with our money.
Don't say that your belief system is comparable to science. Only the gullible will believe you, and it makes you sound like you are preaching a religion.
Most of the feminine behaviors listed are also behaviors important to a Ninja. Probably just a coincidence...

Another interesting thing is how people sit when sitting in a single gender group. For instance, two girls sitting on the grass having lunch will likely be sitting right next to each other, and it is obvious they are together. Two guys will likely sit with a noticeable gap between them and will be more haphazardly arranged, and you might wonder if they are together or that just happens to be the best spot to sit. Or consider the movies. Pairs of guys attending a movie together seem much more likely to leave an open seat between them than do pairs of women attending together.

I wonder if this has something to do with it being considered OK for women to touch, but un-masculine for men to touch, so male groups sit so they won't have to deal with the horror of accidentally touching another man.
well, my recollection of the press at the time, including the suicide of at least one whistleblowing phd / nuclear specialist, is that Blick was head of a group of experienced weapons and related scientists who used trace evidence and known production techniques to estimate what could be produced and what had been produced.

whether Blicks was himself a scientist is unusual but not relevant I guess - its just following the trail of evidence that matters.
Like the Chapter Dependencies on page 10.. Don't think I have seen that before
So what do you suggest I should change?

Thanks in advance.
Coinbase (a YC-backed company) also recently announced SMS support. https://coinbase.com/sms_service
So 10^15 H/s is about 2^50 H/s, or 2^71 H/Y.

Assuming you could rededicate the whole network to attacking SHA-1 (which you practically couldn't, the ASICs would need replacing) you could break 2^10 intermediate SHA-1 signed CA certs per year, and compromise the whole current deployment of HTTPS.
Um.....

A b-1 visa allows consulting with business associates. Isn't this pretty much something that allows corporate officers to do pretty much all duties of corporate officers? I mean what can't they do in this case?
I particularly like how the C code is licensed "without a warranty":

https://github.com/davidlazar/base64
The logo maybe would be better with SVG, but I think that will not help anyways for the antialiasing.
Freedom.

Find whatever makes you free, and do that. Gadgets are a small set of the tools that can make that possible. Knowledge is even better.

I see that bgar's already asked you what you have.

What do you want to do?

(For me, if constrained to gadgets, perhaps a DAQ card can open a lot of doors. Arduinos are cheap, LabJacks and fancier can get a lot more done with greater sensitivity. Got only $10 and an I2C interface? You can have an unreasonable quantity of fun with an AD7746. Seriously.)
One of those Internet Fridges. Yeah, buy one of those.
Can anyone comment if this is still going on?
Gotta preload that audio. Even 100ms of lag between the logo showing up and the music starting is noticeable. Jarring even for (presumably) most of us, who have seen that opening crawl dozens, hundreds, or possibly for children of the 70s who went on to own laserdisc players in the 80s, thousands of times.

In any other context, you could safely pull off not preloading. But this example is just too ingrained into people's minds.
Kindle, Nexus 4 and that's all I would need.
That and a masterful course on photography. Stay cheap with the hardware until you know what you want.
This already exists today: no need for funding, no need for self hosting, Microsoft is not involved in any way, beautiful typography, local storage for writing, nice profiles, stories ranking, a responsive design, made by a designer who writes code. An export to Jekyll feature is coming soon, so you can take the markdown documents to any other platform or just make a blog out of it.

Give it a try: http://markdawn.com/
Was thinking the same. I can see what they might be getting at if you compare Wordpress + mods vs clean Ghost. I doubt once considered fully featured that Ghost would be so much more efficient as to make it a key point of differentiation, for the average small blogger anyway.
Less surveillance and more hackers/cryptography/NSA origins: Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson.
Map of Europe: 1000 AD to present day
Hi anon1685, I do see your points. And no doubt you are right.
It'd be probably quite hard to enter dates and times.

It's a bit of contrived example as well but the main idea I think holds.

People need to think if a mini language can help rather than lots of boxes.

cheers
I'm not sure what you mean by this,'coz movement is relative.
Wait, if you can. Gadgets are nearly always much cheaper and better with each new generation.

If you must spend the money, though, I'd recommend a high end ergonomic chair or a treadmill desk.
Well, thank you for noticing and bringing it to the attention of the development team even through it was through the wrong channel. :-)
Yeah I know and it's freaking me out. I already use the attribute preload="auto" of the <audio>-element, but it's not enough.

Do you know any better ways to preload it?
U.N. Demands Trayvon Martin Investigation
How would these social and environmental factors be featured in the new currency? How would they differ from the current situation where things like moral value of goods are reflected directly in the price (green energy costs more because it has more value)? I'm having difficulties seeing how this new currency would work.
Didn't we used to call those Bildungsroman?
My points are:

1. They can deport you anyway.

2. It isn't clear that the LLC is violating any laws for having corporate officers who run afoul with immigration laws.

3. It isn't clear that the corporate officer is subjected to any additional penalties for such work.

If you aren't going to spend an additional day in jail or have additional legal sanctions for certain behavior, then the argument is entirely academic.

In short, yes they can throw them out of the country. My question is.... What other penalties come up for doing the work? If there are none, then it doesn't matter, the only real crime is overstaying the visa, entering illegally, or the like.

And yes immigration can make their lives worse if they want to return. But immigration can do this even if no laws have been broken.

So my question: What, if any, additional penalties attach to an illegal immigrant for the actions of serving as a corporate officer?
> However he has tended to speak his mind too freely for a job requiring the approval of our timid politicians.

Krugman thinks the problem with Summers would have been too much timidity: "Summers, on the other hand, while he often expresses unconventional views when not in office, has a strong tendency to revert to conventionality when in office." ... "So the apparent decision to appoint Summers is a strong anti-regime-shift signal on Obama’s part." (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/summers-the-shif...)
Because it's spinning in the wrong direction.
i have saved up 1000$ to buy gaming consoles and equipment (LCDs, Leap motion , games etc). But it is mainly due to the fact that before becoming a professional i was never able to afford the latest consoles and games :P.
In my experience, software tailored for specific industries, sciences and academia, the electronics industry specificly, typically have prices in this range.

The narrower the field and harder the science, the fewer (and more expensive) candidates will be sufficiently competent to implement the software and the lesser audience for the software-publisher to recoup their RnD investment with, so prices tends to go up.

Once you need software to support engineering-disciplines not software, they know you will be able to pay the bill and find the software worthwhile compared to doing the same work manually with expensive engineers.
Working with Freelances Across the Seas: A Guide for Employers
An APL library for Haskell
Nice, I've been in Phnom Penh for 2 years now. What type of work are you doing? I'm always looking for good freelance devs.
I'm no expert, there is an entire field here. However, basically, anything people agree to value can function as an asset to be traded as nationally issued fiat-currency (debt) is today. There's essentially no difference, though the latter has the historical benefit of being demanded as tax and supporting by a large army, theoretically though the governments cannot wield these against the hippy next door for, you know, growing trees (environmental credits) or sharing spliffs (social credits).

People wanting the currency (debt) is based upon trust; ie. the trust that the debt society owes you, symbolized in the form of your possession of the asset in question, will be redeemed at some future point by someone else for something you want. (Note that due to inflation and the creation of money in current era systems this debt notion is flipped; typical money must be repaid - with interest, at speed - or forfeited. But that's a tangent.)

A path forward will probably include convincing one or more governments to adopt some alternate assets and begin to effectively provide rates of exchange through government tax incentives or similar. This could kickstart a modern renaissance in multi-asset accounting and localized economies. Not holding my breath on speed, but anything's possible. Part of the challenge here is that social and environmental concerns typically cross borders and election terms, and developed countries' political decisionmaking is heavily blinkered against these two classes of issue.

Recommended reading: Debt: The First 5000 Years.
I'm torn on this. I get what quanticle is saying, that Big-O is very important. I've developed an appreciation for it even if I didn't take CS in college (I took the redheaded bastard stepchild major of CIS).

quanticle is suggesting there is a purposeful, formal means of discussing and identifying performance, irrespective of how it's measured/profiled or addressed.

Here's the rub: why don't job openings eliminate the other requirements and just put Big-O (and a language) as the two must have items on the list. Keep it short. Eliminate the History majors, the non-college types and the CIS (almost but not good enough) types.

That, more than any FizzBuzz, should weed out the chaff instantly. If it's that important to that specific job, then just say so explicitly. Help folks self-filter themselves out.

Let's just hope getting in the door with that Big-O knowledge isn't wasted on run of the mill CRUD apps.
You chopped off the Indian subcontinent
You only need it a few times when getting ready for distribution.
I think there are to many variables to know for sure what the reason is people get addicted.
Minimum of 2 weeks for anything you think might take more than 4 days, if it's a day then double it. etc.
Absolutely agreed with Argonaut ^^
Teenagers would never have the money, write them off.

You should target young adults who can pursue their hobby with money. When you can't make them part with their money it's your problem, not piracy problem.
What is large? Also, looking at software history, it will actually be cool in a few years to make binaries as large as possible. Files with random crap in them should be normal by then to show that you are the best value for money!
If it was me, it'd be a toss-up between a combination of: eReader, tablet, and a Nexus 4. Items to increase my learning efficiency (eReader/tablet) and productivity (Nexus 4).

And I would wait til October for the new Paperwhite and probably the new Kobo Arc.

Also I would want to put about 10-20% away into some sort of investment fund unless there were some items that offered a serious short-term productivity increase the money could rather go to. Just a general rule.
I don't think its that easy, it depends more on the specific school and most of all on the teacher. For the record: I also had to memorize it and i went to an "european" school, or rather to an austrian one. Europe still has a wide variety of education systems.
> If anything, our drive for beating someone else into space for political or economic reasons has really poisoned the well, so to speak.

I assume you are American. If so, I may be fuzzy on the historical facts, but didn't the Russians beat you guys into space?
Cool, but sadly to me this is almost a parody of how modern web dev innovation HTML5/JS/CSS are so far behind the technology that actually exists in the world today (this was originally created in 1977). Web standards are good, but much faster and be far more "open" and expandable.

One suggestion. Don't just create a standard for (monopoly) ECMA Script, instead - create a standard for a VM that other languages can compile bytecode to. Create an API in this VM for graphics, video, audio, ETC. This may be self defeating for these clowns, because JavaScript/CSS/HTML may be decimated in a decade if they actually did this, but hey... One can hope.

Once Google firmly owns the browser (like Microsoft in the 2000s) one of two things will happen. One they say to hell with the standards board and push real innovation and opportunity for developers to innovate. Two, they will sit and let it stagnate. Either way, the cycle is coming around again. Android will own the market in a big way soon. Big opportunity is on the horizon and I am getting my hopes up that there is a big shake up with "browser standards". End the monopoly of lame markup, styling, and scripting (HTML/CSS/JS) in the OS of the internet.
Show HN: My first webapp, a simple, very simple notepad.
So how do you think that compares to the situation in Balkans. In there Yugoslavia was similarly failed attempt to merge all sorts of ethnic groups under a single country. Now they are more split up, and the situation seems finally to be somewhat stable and palatable to the people living there. Or at least they aren't in the headlines anymore like they used to be.
A good ($200+) mechanical keyboard.
2^128 ip-addresses / 10 million packets a second = 7.8 * 10^13 times the age of the universe [1]

To actually scan the entirety of ipv6 address space in under 6 minutes you would need to send 1 billion billion billion billion packets a second [2], or 100 octillion times faster than 10 million packets a second. [3]

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E128%2F10%5E7+second...

[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E128%2F360

[3] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10%5E36%2F10%5E7
Making the code look like the output!! Super cool.
I'm obviously no economist, so can someone explain if price tends to be equal to the marginal cost, who is supposed to cover the fixed cost?
Is is SVG. It's just your browser (I'm guessing Chrome) that chooses to render it at a fixed size and then scale it up. It's perfectly crisp in IE and Firefox, for example.
It would be nice if all that electricity could be used to help the less fortunate on this planet.
i'd get a basis band, a couple raspberry pi's, and a kindle with a bunch of books. the rest I would spend in a vacation @ southeast asia :-)
High quality 24-27" IPS monitor, mechanical keyboard, mousepad, earbuds, chair.

1. Dell Ultrasharp

2. http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=special&filte...

3. SteelSeries QcK

4. Logitech G500

5. Etymotic ER4

6. Herman Miller Aeron
Savings: something you don't need when you have it and that you won't have when you need it.
Assuming that the hashes are equivalent difficulty (I don't know if they are): Given that the market cap of Bitcoin is ~$1B, imagine what you could do if you had ~$1-200M and wanted to crack some certificates...
In fact, it is accounted for. You'll notice the negative exponent on the unlikely hypotheses is getting pretty extreme after a handful of flips.
I am using a Thinkpad x220 with arch and never had any problems whatsoever. Except that I had to set some key functionality myself (volume keys etc.), it almost worked perfectly right out of the box.

Also, i had less problems with arch than other distros, but more importantly, if you had problems it was significantly easier to fix under arch because you knew how everything worked.
If it means frictionless commerce with anyone worldwide, perhaps it will?
> A course on 'stop being an insensitive douche', that is probably where you should start.

I hope you're not an example of their alumni.
really nice advises from the link. thanks for the sharing.
Can someone knowledgeable about security tell me if there is anything about their claim (98% in one round) that is exaggerated or "best edge case only"?

I wonder how these attacks would fare against NaCl[1] or Sodium[2], who were designed to be secure against side-channel attacks.

[1]: http://nacl.cr.yp.to

[2]: http://labs.umbrella.com/2013/03/06/announcing-sodium-a-new-...
There is a series of events this fall in SF based on this book.
Details at http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000615601 (organized by the San Francisco Public Library, but involving many other orgs)

Everything from book discussions coupled with LED plushie making, to talks by security and policy people from Twitter and the EFF.

It's for the "One City One Book" program: "an annual citywide literary event that encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in book groups and at events throughout the City."
Correct

This also applied for regular B visas, if it expires on day X you have until day X to cross the border, but the maximum duration of your stay is determined by the officer, regardless of the remaining visa duration.
And now we know how NSA "breaks the internet encryption", it is not through RDRAND, its by good old force. Its much more cost-effective to do things by force than trying to predict the future uses of some hardware with some special software.
viewtext.org was great for stuff like that (and didn't require an account, unlike readability). Hasn't been up for a while though, unfortunately.
Kevin Mitnicks autobiography "Ghost in the Wires" is very good. Although it's non-fiction, it read like a cyberpunk spy novel.
Thanks for sharing that link.

Just spent 15 minutes rethinking whether I really want to live in Las Vegas.
is this formally verified? I'm not sure whats going on but from a quick glance its just comparing the output of two implementations?
If you were holding a physical coin in your hand, you would have to be crazy to select a uniform distribution unless it was shaped like a sphere. This is sort of a really minor pet peeve of mine when people use coin-flipping as an example for these things. If it's even vaguely coin-like, even the most ridiculous distortion (maybe it's made of uranium on one side and aluminum on the other) probably couldn't bring the true probability past 70% or something.
Well, they were real civilizations, bu I doubt anyone would dare to equate their achievements and influence with the Ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese or Egyptians. Especially for the Incas, it's hard for me to be impressed by their achievements around the year 1400 AD considering what the Egyptians already had achieved by the year 2000BC...
Not sure. How does this interact with the ideas of Trade Secrets and the patent system? The latter is to encourage dissemination of the former in exchange for temporary monopoly.

One would usually argue that the ability to keep trade secrets is the more "free" market, yet we have decided that there are long-term societal benefits to dissemination so we provide government protection of ideas. Since Libertarians would say that this protection represents some form of government intervention, I would say that the idea of secrets is fairly fundamental to the idealists' free market.

Of course, whether or not patents are a good idea is debatable, but that's another question. My point is that I don't agree that transparency is a fundamental aspect of the free market, I haven't heard that argument before and don't see how the free market even encourages it. Sure, people might request a certain amount of transparency, but no more transparency will be provided than that which is demanded by consumers -- and we have seen quite frequently that consumers are quite willing to be kept in the dark to a certain extent.
I've been using ProcessWire, and it's been fantastic to work with. However, it stores user-defined template schemas in a MySQL database. Does that pose a big problem for you? I'm really curious to know what kind of troubles you've run into with configuration in the DB.
Gift for a 10 year old
I'm after ideas for a birthday gift for my 10 year old son. He has an interest in technology, I've tried to teach him a little programing of late, and he is kind of interested. Anyway open to any ideas, not just tech ones.
They have quite some preconditions that need to be in place:

- You must know the code locations of the instructions that you target exactly. I.e. you will need to get down to the exact cache line of the operation in the compiled binary of the attacked program. They solve this by using a binary with debug symbols, in practice this will be harder as the binary will likely be stripped from debug symbols.

- You can bet that there will be differences in the attack depending on the model of processor, let alone the manufacturer that will make it very hard to generalize this attack, increasing its cost.

I think there are cheaper attacks for criminals/government agencies. Also, as mentioned below it is already mitigated by a GPG fix. But I found the paper quite interesting as I never considered such an attack before.