skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This works, and works well.

I had a little trouble getting it to run on one of my older Mac OSX machines, but I'm pretty sure that was because I had the remains of a previous installation of MacFUSE messing things up -

There's also a MacOSX/iOS/Android/Windows commercial "wrapper" around EncFS which is fully compatible with the compiled-from-source versions of EncFS I've got running on Mac OSX and Linux (ARM and x86) - it's a "binary blob", but if your security/convenience tradeoff lets you consider that, have a look at BoxCryptor Classic:

https://www.boxcryptor.com/boxcryptor-classic

For me, the tradeoff of having secured/encrypted files available on iOS is worth the decrease in security by relying on Secomba GmbH not backdooring me at the request of the NSA or ASIO (my local security agency) – or anybody further down the security agency or law enforcement foodchain. I'm not actually trying to protect myself against targeted surveillance by any sufficiently powerful nation-state, but I feel good about knowing I'm not quite so readily caught up in "dragnet" surveillance…
I've had it take longer with Apple too but that's usually been on popular releases when they've gotten back-ordered. My wife's laptop was customized with 8gb of ram and 512gb ssd and its ship date was 1-2 days and it did ship 2 days later.

My main complaint was that after ordering a computer for 1800.00 it's very frustrating to be told that it will take 10-20 days just to "build" it, much less how long it will take to actually get to me.
Bruce's article on staying secure from the NSA[1] talks about using an air gapped computer to avoid being compromised via the network. If he hadn't been keeping his keys on such a machine previously - recent disclosures may have changed his mind and forced him to regenerate his keys.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-rema...
"A net that catches every fish names none" is an interesting turn of phrase. Does it come from somewhere? Nets don't usually name things; the net that catches only 2 fishes also doesn't name them.
“These younger engineers can write a lot of sloppy code, and it doesn’t matter, but here, with very limited capacity, you have to be extremely precise and have a real strategy,” she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/science/in-a-breathtaking-...
Problem with whats taught in School || Spoken Word
As one of the people who decides where and how brand marketing budgets are spent - I would say Twitter's advertising product and approach is far more viable and attractive than Facebook's is (or ever has been).

On top of that, the work Twitter is doing with TV networks, producers, and sporting organisations is unique and has a high chance of success because it provides value to those organisations.

While some have tried, nobody else has come as close as Twitter to accessing and disrupting the $180B (annual) TV advertising market.

I wish them luck. I think they're going to nail it.
I've read it many times. The most generous possible interpretation I can ascribe is that he's completely off-topic in his response to the parent comment and considers anyone with wealthy parents to be less than adult. The more likely interpretation in-context is that he thinks anyone who hasn't gone through college is less than an adult. You're not going to convince me otherwise by repeating the same argument with different words.
If I take your meaning correctly, you do agree! You also would prefer to work with the same set of people you want to hang out with. It's just in your case that set is empty in both instances.
Hmmm, I wonder if TrueCrypt adequately secures a hidden volume's existence from an attacker (Dropbox) who can watch the patterns of your block level writes?
I'm a hardware engineer.

I agree with you about patterns and mathematics - also beautiful, but cold (sorry, best I can explain it).

But when we see a complex physical problem, and then see a nicely designed and implemented real-life solution - there I think my "engineered" theory has as good a chance at being correct as does the theory that says it just sprang up from 100 million years of evolution and random mutations (both of which I agree do occur).
In a dozen years, I think I've had a grand total of 4 clients (out of several hundred) that ever used PGP (despite recommending it specifically on project kickoff calls, particularly for communicating discovered vulnerabilities). I only had one who already had a key.

Outside of those few work examples, I don't think I've ever sent or received a PGP encrypted message. In fact, the only signed messages I think I've ever seen were mailing list messages from people who signed all their messages.
> So everyone can act in an honest, forthright, and rational manner... and the results can still seem pretty ugly

Sorry, what? "Everyone can act in an honest, forthright, and rational way"?

The people adding "added ingredients" to their meals are acting in an honest, forthright, and rational way?

This isn't "rationality", it's acting like a racist asshole.

Now, it's not surprising if black people avoid places that have a bunch of racist assholes. But that doesn't mean that what's going on is self-segregation; that's overt, racist segregation on the part of the knuckleheads who are spitting in their food.

I'm really having a hard time following what you're trying to say, because it feels like you're trying to say "well, that's what happens when everyone acts rationally", and I'm not really seeing that, I'm seeing a lot of people acting in a racist manner.
It would be very difficult to for any service to have no audience on HN, not because HN is relevant to whatever they're peddling but because HN has a large audience.

Startups pooping out startup-fluff advertisement-articles chasing that precious 0.x% clickthrough rates to their homepage is boring and a stupid 'plan b' for growing your business.

Companies that actually have relevance to this community have no problem getting traction here based on what they do - that's why we don't get spoonfed "how to be an entrepreuner!!!!!!" each week from Github, Dropbox, Parse, Amazon etc.
Carl Icahn must be a very upset activist investor now.
I wish Michael Dell can improve Dell's figures - I think they do make very solid hardware but their profit margin in the consumer space are just too thin.

They either need to push more on the services front or become the Apple for Windows powered systems, where they could sell stylish and great products at a premium.
Maybe this will get buried, but as a huge fan of Twitter and the team I can't help but think they can try making more cool stuff? This huge benevolent profitable business with amazing developers has a shot at making more than a web application, I suppose. Others may say it's unfair for the big guy to cannibalize business ideas though.
> How we do it is not really what matters to our developers, as long as it works :)

How you do it is most certainly what matters to developers, as soon as it doesn't work as expected :)
Dude, no worries, I've realized I didn't do the best job of presenting the information or highlighting that link. You were not alone in your confusion, haha.

My ultimate goal is to not have to use server-side tools for managing front-end dependencies.

I would like to leave bower and npm out of it completely. Making node or any other full language stack a dependency for front-end development is the wrong way to go about it, in my opinion.

There's just too much friction between filesystems and the browser.
Would be nice if they could spread some of this new found IMAP love to Outlook proper. Last time I checked, support for it is still fairly half hearted :(
1. That's not what I said.

2. I'm sure the Mongo devs would accept pull requests for mongodump.
For everyone who liked 'Into the Wild' I suggest the documentary 'Once I Was a Champion' that tells the story of Evan Tanner, a mma fighter who died in a pilgrimage in the Californian Desert. Evan, an avid travelller just like Chris, was also a person who had trouble finding his place in this world and suffered from depression and a deep sense of alienation.
Ironically, I think this is both the sign to buy twitter and stop using it at the same time.

I no longer trust American companies to do right by the user the moment that their stock becomes public. When wall street is banging on the door for a quarterly result, most CEOs end up listening.

I'm not deleting my account just yet, but I'm wary from everything I've seen in the last decade.
I've been a developer and building websites for a long time. Yes, "easy" is probably overstating, but the parts that are problems I'd think could be corrected or fixed without a major undertaking. Fixing the broken links and finding a way to speed the pages up a bit should not require overhauling the entire site.

Dell, I would guess, does much of their business online so it would seem a no-brainer to make the online experience as good as possible. Broken links and consistent timeouts are inexcusable for a site like Dell.
Actually, the bigger reason (as I understand it) that Coupling failed in the US had more to do with American network TV not being at all comfortable with the content of Coupling. The humor was generally "neutered" for American TV and the resulting product was so watered down it was doomed to fail.

Not to mention that the casting was atrocious.
I'm talking to Piotr at JSFiddle about adding lit to the drop down list on his site and one of the requirements is a single-file build, so I'll be doing that ASAP!
Obesity: Wider understanding
Wait, if the club is targeted at black clientele, then why do they have a policy designed to keep out black people?
For what it's worth, I wasn't talking about anyone... just commenting on the parent's assertion about stupidity in general.
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This is awesome. I use Twitter everyday in a way that can't be replicated by any other service out there - there's zero competition. Once they really figure out monetization, as Facebook eventually did, it will be a home run for investors.
Agreed, Per Wendel the creator of Spark explains here too:

http://www.sparkjava.com/why.html

I have done JAX-RS, for small web apps where you aren't trying to build in the kitchen sink, Spark is looking nice. Spark doesn't seem to be trying to replace JAX-RS, it seems to just be making the syntax a bit easier and doing lightweight REST in a way I find unique and really applicable to small web apps. He uses plain Java main.
I'm curious which processes you automated in VBA? I'm currently an analyst in an FP&A role. I use VB for a lot of things but I'm not sure I could automate that much of my job. I do a lot of smaller tasks, taking the time to write a macro for each one just doesn't seem to add value. Especially when processes change frequently. Perhaps IB is more suited for VBA automation.
"Sneaky" or not – it's definitely unexpected behaviour. I certainly didn't expect .doc files I store in a Dropbox folder to magically go and fetch remote resources. Whether it's "explainable" or not (and I guess the "they're generating PDF thumbnails" is a plausible explanation), Dropbox haven't taken any steps to inform users that this happens.

There's little doubt that somebody will think up a way to take advantage of this to "leak" information.

I wonder if this happens before or after Dropbox's dedupe step? I wonder if that provides an avenue to extract useful data?
More importantly you have to pay a regular fee to the owner as long as you are borrowing their stock.
That multiplying two floats idea is clever. You could use two random double floats (2*64 bits = 128 bits). It would be extremely unlikely that they are found by accident and just running javascript in the browser could leak AES keys.
What more, the vertebrate eye has a flaw: its blind spot. The fibers of the optic nerve and the central retinal blood vessels irradiate in front of the retina.

You may think that it is a necessary defect, but the squid eye, which evolved independently to end up almost identical to its vertebrate counterpart doesn't have it. The nerve fibers and blood vessels run behind the retina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_eye
Right-clicking to get info was what came to my mind -- which also works!
From the article:

"..It turns out that far from being a minor initiative to keep MariaDB alive, Google is actively patching and upgrading MariaDB 10.0 to be fit enough so that Google can migrate all of its thousand-plus MySQL instances onto the technology."
that's why we are talking 2048 vs. 4096.
For what it's worth Dell does sell several configurations of most models that ship immediately or next day. Personally, I prefer to build my own, but I help my clients choose Dell PCs from time to time and it's never been an issue getting them delivered within a week. If you look for "Smart Selection" or "Quick Ship" models, you'll find quite a lot.

Apple works the same way, in my experience. When I ordered my Air a couple years ago, I couldn't buy it in store because it was a configuration they didn't carry and it took several days after my online order before it even shipped from China.
It depends on loads of factors.

Also, differentiation between acute toxicity (would kill within a month) or chronic issues (inflammation, deficiency, hormone altering, etc).
Wheels/axles at a macroscopic scale seem rather inaccessible to evolution. The problem is keeping two sections of one animal alive across the wheel/axle boundary. You could imagine different ways to grow a wheel/axle structure out of a horn-like material, but it isn't clear what advantage intermediate forms of this would provide. Perhaps it could happen with two separate symbiotic animals though...

Microprocessors (aka, brains) seem pretty straightforward though. Even a little coordination and planning is better than none.
Wish someone would do that for Postgres.
I've seen keysigning parties at a few technical conferences. Find one, preferably one that caters to programmers and/or sysadmins rather than managers and/or marketers, and which has extra space for not-scheduled-in-advance meetings. Then schedule a keysigning party and see who shows up. Remember to bring ID.
I don't know of a good way to get rid of technical books -- that aren't good enough to sell on Amazon, but probably useful for someone.

What do you do?

Post your own pictures. Maybe we can find a home for some books.
30 years is just beginning, don't even bother about it
Focus in your goal - Business
Become a freelancer, lot of freelancing websites are there - elance,odesk,freelancer etc., etc.,
use your skills - php or js or whatever you know, and try to get some work and pay your bills.

if you can't even get one freelancing work, then consider it as you don't have exposure skills

if you can't complete a taken work, then you have to improve your skills
It's Treason to Disobey the NSA
> Broken links and consistent timeouts are inexcusable for a site like Dell.

Oh, I agree. But I doubt they’re doing it on purpose. I would also guess that they have a lot of talented, knowledgable web developers on staff. That's why I'm saying that the problems are probably not as easily solved as you may think. I don't know what their backend is, I don't know what kind of CMS they're using and how it ties into their ERP, CRM, etc.
Adventures in Rust part II: modules and control flow
A club would last about three seconds if they did this in my hometown, Washington, D.C. It's just plain not realistic here.

There are certainly bars patronized mostly by black men and women, however I doubt they'd disallow a white person entry. In that way I suppose a certain self-segregation exists, but it's not like black people aren't going to every bar in the city, just like white people. It's not really an issue I'm aware of here. Maybe this is just a Huston thing?
There's a very good idea on Dell's website that I haven't seen on other laptop sites: All Dell laptops have a sticker with a "service tag" (a 6-character code that looks like, say, HYBVGX). You enter that code in the Dell website, specify the OS (say, Windows/XP), and you can download all the drivers specific to your laptop configuration.

The idea is wonderful. For Lenovo laptops, by contrast, you have to somehow know exactly what components are used in your laptop and then go hunt for those drivers. (And no, I don't want to use Lenovo's mysterious automatic update tools.)

I said that Dell's idea is wonderful, but the implementation is horrible unfortunately: you have to download the drivers one-by-one (unless you're willing to use their download manager), the order in which drivers are installed matters and Dell doesn't tell you the order, the documentation on what each driver does is very poor, they are inconsistently packaged (zip files, exe's, installers), and sometimes you get offered, say, 3 wifi drivers because apparently Dell doesn't know which wifi chipset was put into your configuration.

Like I said, the idea is great.
No, my brain just mixed metaphors stupidly. It just sounds interesting because it alliterates, which is also by accident.

I was thinking about how tuna fishermen cast dragnets that often catch many other things, up to and including sharks and dolphins. Hence, you couldn't really call such a net a "tuna net", since it more just catches tuna by coincidence of catching everything even remotely fish-shaped.
o snap: https://sigil.cupcake.io/12345678987
> "By the time the signals get to Earth, they are a fraction of a billion-billionth of a watt."

Check my math but one billionth of a Watt is 1 nW. So one billion-billionth of a Watt is 1 atto Watt?
Now, you're just being argumentative for argumentation sake. I'm done
That is not a brute force attack. That is the user covering the phone with the password.
Fair enough.

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works.

Practice is everything works but no one knows why.

Here, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why

:)
Theoretically, the main reason to prefer traditional IPO's to dutch auctions, is the auctions in general may not give sufficient rewards for "price discovery". That is, everyone is relying on everyone else to research the firm and discover its true value. That's not to say there is NO incentive for price discovery in auctions, just not as much as through the traditional process.

In my corporate finance class they described how some countries (I forget which) had experimented with auctions instead of using i-bank underwriting, and in the end they had all gone back to using i-banks.

I don't know anything about M&A, but on structured products I agree they are just for customers who don't know any better.
This was invented by onyx pharma in the US years ago. The clinical trials didn't work. Onyx moved onto the greener pasture of small molecule drugs. It seems the viral p53 delivery may work out better with liver cancers, which is a bigger problem in China.
The average person (who according to apple does not use a passcode) will be more secure overall if they use Touch ID.
That is satisfyingly succinct.
I just finished watching my DVR'd copies last week. It would have been a spoiler for me. Nowadays you can't expect for people to watch something even within the few weeks surrounding the original airing. I'm sure that makes it hell for ratings companies.

It would have been nice for a little * spoiler alert *.
This piece would have been a lot more interesting if it had mentioned why Sync was preferable to the other solutions.
Economics - black clubs also enforce dress codes to try and ensure their patrons have some cash to spend. They want a clientele that can "dress to impress". Banning white shirts and baseball hats is also an attempt to lower issues with gangs, and young men (of any race) tend to fight a lot, so if you can get a slightly more grown up clientele, you might have less problems.
The (public) factorization record with GNFS is 768 bits, in an effort that took about 2000 CPU years. 1024 bits is about 1000x harder, so probably within reach with government resources. 2048 bits is 10^12 times harder, which surely is out of reach for the time being time unless the NSA has a better algorithm.
Well, hope that does not shoot up housing prices in SF area again.
EBay Helps First Firefox OS Phone Sell Out in U.S., U.K.
I've had a PGP key since 2001. I upgraded to 2048 bit some years ago due to the increasing weakness of 1024 bit keys.

I think I've received maybe one message encrypted to me. Everything else I use PGP for is to send signed emails to mailing lists.
I'm curious if Hacker News would have brought such pessimism to the AAPL and MSFT IPOs as they have with Facebook and Twitter.

Around 500 million users, around 750 million tweets per day. That data might not be worth everything, but it's definitely worth something.
I've reviewed Lambdas and still don't think the syntax is clearer to me than just using an Anonymous Class. Either way, less configuration and less annotations, whatever lets me do that I could buy into as long as the debugging isn't a mess.
The way the skin works is fascinating. I wonder if there's any potential for designing a display that works in a similar fashion :)
I think the point is even if 9/10 places to eat where safe people would still avoid them simply because of 3rd party's that are not working at those safe places. Aka the risk is somewhat independent of the restaurants actions.
I think he's referring to the trailing sentence that you quoted which mentioned 1024-bit keys being safe against multinationals.
Campari and soda is a fantastic drink. Refreshing and not super high in alcohol, yet bitter instead of cloying and sweet. For future reference, since it looks like you are not a native English speaker, the phrase for non-Champagne champagne is "sparkling wine."
There's some pretty unpleasant stuff in the "Terms and Conditions". I didn't agree.

* If you link to the site, you can only say nice things

* You can't opt out of their emails

* They say, "please refer to our privacy policy" but there isn't one (this might be an oversight or maybe I just missed it)

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1. > it would be a PITA to write an asynchronous utility in C++

2. Doubt it, and there's no reason for me to write one for them.
Whether they are doing cooler "shit" or not, is irrelevant to investing in them. It's way too geeky to get into one of these Android vs iOS, Steve vs Elon, Microsoft vs Apple, Superman vs Mighty Mouse debates.

Let's just say that when a company like Facebook or Google, which builds large data centers, and has a billion customers, make small changes, or increases in efficiency, they have an opportunity to make a big impact too.

Where you want to rank them in your mind on an absolute scale, well, that's really up to you. It's probably meaningless, but I guess people like to believe in people/companies. It's how we're wired.
Meh, you can do fine by using two one-way ethernet cables (you might have to cut the receive wires yourself), and some tweaked network stack.
> 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.

I'm not eliciting any personal information from you but this assessment is infinitely more meaningful if you're a member of one of the minority groups typically discriminated against. Those are the groups that don't have to "go looking" for discrimination, and their social networks are such that they'll know about it even if they don't have much personal experience with it.
Most arrogant Quora answer ever?
In Silicon Valley start-up world, pedigree counts
Judging from your comment and GP’s, it’s obvious that DELL is giving women special treatment ;)

I’ve ordered numerous BTO Macs. Most took only a few days, a few took over a week. In the cases that it took over a week, it was always when the model was recently released.