skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it was installed in the late 60s, but it was really poor during the 80s (and yes, I rode it in the mid 80s as well). There's really no comparison between it then and what it became just prior to the olympics. Same with the highway situation, airport, transport links to Tianjin, and even more minor things like making sure Pinyin was on all street signs. These things matter. The 40 billion didn't just give people an illusion - it transformed Beijing and partner cities and made a lasting contribution to the people who lived there.
Oh, pot, kettle! C'mon already.

You're right that by abstracting things away you can just create a philosophical point with no path to resolution, but you can also actively inflict harm by tackling an issue in isolation without evaluating and understanding the root cause.

This is the same philosophy (general problem, specific problem within that general problem that we think we can act on, so act, without looking at the general problem) that lead to rampant mercury poisoning and insanity across the globe in the late 19th c., as a poultice of mercury nicely clears up the sores from syphilis - but does not cure syphilis.
When it comes to crypto most people who read HN aren't close to being qualified to read the code and spot issues.

The things the NSA is doing isn't putting in "IF password = 'Joshua" then LetMeIn()", it's subtle flaws in random number generators. The reality is that open source may be our best defence but it's still a pretty poor defence because of the complexity of what's been compromised.

The more I think about it the more I think the actual best thing you can do is to pick obscure technologies that were probably too small to warrant NSA attention.
This might work, but the people getting the message need that value communicated. Cute dinosaur emails do not say 'I'm throwing money around'. The site would need a complete redo.

On the other hand the cute dinosaurs are very appealing right now. And this service is likely really cheap to run, and collects the names and emails of people, new parents, who will be purchasing lot of stuff right now... That's valuable and I think that's the revenue stream I'd go after.
Seems to be down, cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
That's Auburn Gresham. It's not a particularly bad neighborhood. It's mostly black, like the rest of the south side, but also middle class and connected to the Metra. Just one neighborhood south is Beverly, one of the safest neighborhoods in the city.

Here's a bad neighborhood in Chicago:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=west+garfield+park&ie=UTF-8&h...

It is not well-maintained and it isn't pleasant; it's block after block of board-ups and red-X placards.
Serious, although flying in the face of practicality. If an organization of 150+ is dominated by five members and those five are against the interests of the non-five, then it's not an organization for the non-five.
I happily use reversible transactions and pay the premium when I wish to deal with a person or company that I have not used before and nothing to base their reputation on. On the Internet, I only use credit cards for these types of transactions since I enjoy strong protection in my jurisdiction. And I am happy to pay the premium.

Note that nothing about irreversible transactions stops you from verifying the identity of the other party and suing over failure to perform on a contract. I accept that this is tedious and difficult over multiple jurisdictions. In society we seem to prefer giving the money sender arbitrary control instead. But this just makes it difficult for money receivers who do not deal with bulk volumes, and allows money senders to abuse money receivers. I think it's important not to conflate reversible transactions with other forms of contract enforcement, such as the courts.

But I'd still like the option of executing an irreversible transaction when I choose to do so. In the physical world, I use cash for this, and it works well. I'd like an online equivalent.

Otherwise, the increased cost just becomes a tax on online transactions. There are many transactions which aren't tied to a contract where performance can be measured. Take crowdfunding, for example. What does a reversible transaction even mean? Paypal's stance is just to ban or freeze accounts performing these kinds of activities.

So by banning irreversible transactions, you stop certain activities from taking place, since there exist legitimate transactions which do not correspond to contracts that can be measured. I think we harm society as a result.

Reversible transactions: good. No option of irreversible transactions: bad.
Those were at least tangible back then :D
Why are all app screenshots taken on Mac/Safari?
Why all web app screenshots are depicted as if they they are taken on a Mac? I sell a desktop software aimed at photographers and Mac sales are not even 10% of Windows sales! People who pay for software seem to be using Windows but since it is considered cool to develop on Mac, developers put up screenshots of Mac. Why nobody puts up a screenshot taken on a PC or that shows some other browser like Firefox or Chrome or even IE?
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Once open spaces are now subdivided, health care motivated by usury, and wages lie stagnant since the seventies. Water crises, hemispheric pollution, and thermonuclear warheads, all are modern innovations which the prewar generations would be thankful to escape.

The present isn't inevitably better than the past. The future will not necessarily be rosier.
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It's very convenient for NSA to know your next dentist appointment because they can search your home at that time. Or install/remove bugs.

BTW it's a major trope in spy movies. Literally dentist appointment in "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" ("Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire").
Just watched a how-to video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEmlPK9R6Og), you better be the electronics DIY guy for that.
This is sweeeet, thank you, fogus!
> can I run Erlang code on it efficiently? (This question also disqualifies LLVM

Are you saying LLVM can't be used to efficiently implement Erlang-style processes/tasks? I thought Rust was aiming to be able to handle a large number of lightweight tasks, and its based on LLVM?
Single data point: A designer for a website I worked on made all the screenshots. That designer used a Mac.

In general, designers may be more into Macs, and thus use them for screenshots?
> But Windows 8.1 isn't even released yet.

That's the whole point - to have your software compatible with it the moment it's released. The only way to check is to have access to earlier versions sooner and be able to work around the incompatibilities. By favoring some vendors Microsoft makes it easier/cheaper for them to have better 8.1 support than it is for you.
Evade Unlawful Handcuff Restraint... Right. And their follow-up product will be a tool to open a car door in case you are accidentally trapped in the caged back seat of a car with no internal door handles.
Lots of good discussion about financials and which option is cheaper. But I think one major point not being brought up
here are all the subjective benefits of homeownership, which--for me at least--were much more important than a few thousand dollars
this way or that way on the TCO. Some thoughts:

* Landlord can decide to sell the house any time

* Improvements and diy projects are a pain, have to negotiate with landlord (if possible at all)

* In the category of standalone house type properties, rental inventory is vastly inferior to inventory available for purchase

* Hard to do any lasting improvement or landscaping with the axe of eviction via rental sale hanging over one's head
"The 'rn' case is one of kerning, and is an issue independent of the mono- or proportional-ness of the font; it's one of kerning."

No. Kerning applies to proportionally spaced fonts, not monospace fonts. See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning Designing monospace fonts so that character combinations are more readable has nothing to do with kerning.
I've dealt with a lot of bugs in FreeBSD, and most of them were found by non-security-experts. The people finding said bugs didn't necessarily know enough to be able to exploit the bugs, or even enough to be certain that there was a bug; but there were a lot of "this code looks weird" reports turning out to expose vulnerabilities.

I don't think you need to be a security or cryptography expert to find vulnerabilities the NSA might try to exploit.
hmm... well compared to that, yeah. way better than the "wait, we'll message you a code!" thing. good work!
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because of the fancy background shadow the mac screenshot thing puts around the app window?
hahah my point exactly
And how do you verify that the design was not modified before the chip went into production?
I don't see how you don't see a relation.

You assume he is, then you read the source of the client that is sending the data, and verify that it's not. You trust the code, not the person. That's the TLDR of the article.
You also need the user id and password. The phone is just the second factor. you need both factors to login
As a sometime prof at a for-profit school, may I observe that 1/3rd of my students (on average) failed - not for any guilt by the school (me included), but because they just didn't do the work. Really, they didn't even try; I can't grade what's not submitted. Methinks there's a significant correlation between your complaint and the reality I observed, a correlation which nobody is taking into account.
Ask HN: PEBCAK or PICNIC?
So far, I'm seeing a lot of emails from non-Americans saying it's PICNIC...
You'd still need to know their username/password
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Looks more like a feature to me! haha

I had to do a report on an influential woman when I was in middle school and chose Grace Hopper. I've always been quite happy with that choice.
Love to see people building and trying out things.

Some architect correct me but isn't a spherical-shaped house the worst case scenario for insulation? you have the biggest volume of air to heat/cool down with the largest surface to insulate and for heat to come in or go out, plus a pretty small surface footprint.
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Currently it doesn't look at the robots.txt file. I had taken note of this, and will be added in future releases. Thanks for the suggestion.
"my mom had a run in with the cartel in Mexico"
My high school CS class was taught by the softball coach (who also taught AP Calc), so yeah, credentials aren't everything, even though he probably had them. The only gripe I had was that spring semester suffered since his passion was definitely softball, and not so much the math or programming. Somewhere deep in the back of my head are the remnants of C++ thanks to him.
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Call it...Godwin's Wall?
I tested this with IE9 on Windows 7 Pro and it did not crash. I clicked on the Crash Me button, moved the cursor all around, refreshed the page, etc. No crash.
Every time someone drops the "generational breakdown of ethics" idea, I can't help but think that we really can't have fallen that much ethically when we used to have legal slavery, legal disenfranchisment of the poor, and so forth. On the other hand, in a lot of ways we have found more subtle and palatable ways for groups to seek power over others.

In the end, I just think that over time, the "goodness" of human ethics has been more or less stationary. We've got wants and needs. We've got empathy. We've got conscious minds that seek rationalizable patterns of behavior that satisfy both of these things, but the end result isn't really a consistent normative ethical scheme. Even the most religious people (obviously) find ways to bend the spirit of the ethical schemes to their own benefit.
this isn't some new security algorithm they invented. this is just two-factor authentication done in a more seamless way.
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Of course the path from Verilog to working hardware involves a number of steps along the way. You don't really know that your hardware design has made it into silicon intact and that nothing else has been added. [1]

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/05/backdoor_foun...
Both electricity and plumbing has immense regulations, and historical perspective of being neutral and non-threatening to businesses.

Cloud services has none of that, and can cut off service for any reason. Work on any competing services that "the company" dislike, or do anything disruptive to people in power, and instant see your future, your business, you speech be taken down to a 404 not found. Any logs, any files, any property at all confiscated. Even pure money is not safe from "indefinite suspension of the account".

Maybe this is a lesson that if you ever want to legally produce a scam, steal, or do anything that normally would land you in jail, all you need to do is go into producing third-party digital infrastructure. There is basically nothing a cloud service can do that would lend the owners to go to jail except tax evasion.
So, the founder of Blue Label Labs, a company which "is a New York based iOS, Android and Windows Phone mobile design and development lab," doesn't like the DIY App tool that Microsoft released..? Shocking!

Microsoft hate-train or not, let's not take this as an actual, level headed review of the system -- in any sense. The guy has a vested interest in it not being a good system, and selling it to people as such (regardless of reality).
In fact, practically, your birth date is only your birth date inasmuch as the government believes that that's the date it is. If a nurse in the pregnancy ward makes a typo, and that's what gets submitted to the government, then that's your birth date, and no arguing.

(I say this from a position somewhere in-between: I was born in British Columbia, and my birth date is right on my birth certificate, but wrong on the public-health-plan card you also get issued at birth. I had a very strange time bootstrapping my first credit card...)
>Unique patent-pending technologies and a fortified protocol model enable military-grade security.

what? don't.
This is a mistake I made. My dad didn't go to college and my mom got a 2 year degree from a community college. A shitty for profit school sold me on the idea that I could get an awesome job in 2 years and then continue on to a bachelors program. Except that the credits don't transfer and you can only get the BS from the same shitty school. I also didn't see anyway I could pay for schooling without working full time and I didn't see how I could make that work at a traditional school.

Although I'm doing ok in my career I know many people who go to these types of schools do not. Now I don't know what to do. I would love to have gone or go to a 4 year state school. At this point in my life I make too much money and have too many responsibilities to be able to quit and go back to school. I also have 10 years in the field which I hope makes up for the education gap in some cases.

Are there any actually decent (accredited) programs that have hours for working people? The only way I see myself getting a BS is if there is a full night program somewhere but at this point I'm not even sure that it's worth taking on more debt.
I wonder if stuff like this could help, but it could be years away from deployment anyway (and that's if the companies are even willing to do it - so all the more reason to avoid current cloud services):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/10/boffins_propose_more...
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This article implies that the entire UI is crap but then goes on to complain solely about the casing and spacing of a few variables and a button. He does have a point that this amounts to noise for the uninitiated but I wouldn't say it breaks the UI. It seems like the author was eager to bash MS.
"I also pay for bugs people find in Tarsnap, as well as scrypt, kivaloo, and spiped, right down to the level of typographical errors in comments."

I think these bug bounties are interesting. Is there something like a market price for one of these bugs? I.e. are other people out there besides Colin willing to pay for bugs in the tarsnap client?
Not sure about Cocos2D-X
Ricardo Quesada, Cocos2D creator, is now moving from Zynga to Chuking Technologies (Cocos2D-X): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6348565

And he is proficient in C++ and Objective-C.
People say email can be zero-knowledge, but I'm not quite sure--ever since Gmail pushed us from organizing everything into folders, to one giant Archive + labels, I find server-side search to be an essential attribute of my email service. I don't want to pull my entire mail history down onto my phone just to find one message; even the index would be ridiculous.
True. In an organization with enough people, it's often more efficient to specialize (e.g., into workers and managers).

I would say that the quoted statement is not an entirely fair characterization of managers (PIs) in academia though. It's always easy to discount the contribution of others and to believe you did all of the work, and believe me, you do a lot of it - but it's not a trivial matter that these "managers" already thought up and won money for the general research direction, and ultimately accept responsibility for the success of your projects; not to mention having to worry about funding you for the duration of your PhD. And do recall that they do had to be extremely patient with you while you were still learning the ropes - so you can't extrapolate your productivity in your last year back to the first year when assessing your cumulative value. ("you" used here in the generic sense)

I won't deny that many managers are asshats as bosses, but their job is not so simple.
I prefer to let the search engines worry whether a link is supposed to pass link juice or not. I've already given Google my fair share of information these days anyway.
I'm not entirely certain how your link somehow conflicts with the points I raised. They're really entirely separate. The number of students paying no or reduced tuition really just affects that specific group. This exists across any university/institution and as far as I know has for quite some time...
Exactly, that's why personal decisions and attitudes matter. It's a lot easier to not do the right thing if no one expects you to.
1) It is great that snapshots are on their way. I am looking forward to use them. All in all you cannot benefit from them in Cinder right now.

2) I dont claim that all bricks must be specified in mount command. I just point out that having let's say 4 bricks it is impossible to mount volume by specifing only 2 servers if both of them are down, yet still the rest 2 work.

3) Like I wrote. It only considers CLI.

4) I totally agree with you. Mounting volume from many locations is one of advantages. It is not supported by Openstack. I dont blame GlusterFS for that.

5) My intension was not to describe GlusterFS cool features but current state (and preview of Openstack Havana implementation) of integration with Openstack.
I have difficulty parsing the submission title. It should probably be either:

Seamless Login which users will love.

or:

Seamless Login: which users will love it?
How many of the people talking about 'many eyes' on HN feel that they would have spotted the Debian OpenSSL bug[1]? As far as I remember it was not spotted through code review, but because people discovered identical certs in the wild.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/random_number...
This cannot be understated, especially when it's not just the NSA snooping -- it's the entirety of the US Government. The DEA and the IRS revelations about using NSA-sourced information are just the tip of the iceberg, and it should be clear and obvious that there are use-cases for this data in a variety of other areas.

Unless the government puts explicit restrictions (not secret restrictions!) on how their resources (not just stored data!) can be used and actively punishes those using it improperly, then it should be assumed that all the resources at the NSA's disposal will be used for the convenience of the rest of the government.
As someone who learned programming in VB, I agree with you. As a junior high kid I was able to make things from business calculators to arcade style games. Was my code great? NO. Was it hip and trendy? Back then... maybe, but no. Am I now a successful programmer "who knows better" with a degree/full time job/start up? Yes.

I'm not sure VB was a "make or break" factor in my education, but it certainly didn't help. Also, I'm trying to teach my girlfriend development and web development, it turns out, IS NOT a good place to start.
i wonder how this app tracks your phone's location.
>you can't judge an entire audition based on a 6-second clip.

Trust me, guys can judge the attractiveness of a woman that fast, I google'd her and if she's the pix returned, she is a very beautiful woman. If the only point of watching live music, besides conspicuous consumption, is to actually watch a live human being perform, well, obviously a high level of beauty is an inherent part of that performance. If it wasn't, they'd just play a cd on the stage or something.

Which points out an obvious problem with her "research". Her mistake was in not equalizing the sample and making all the musicians wear literal gorilla costumes or something like that. You could still see / hear their individual style but guys couldn't consciously or unconsciously vote for the most beautiful musician.
The degree is just proof that you have the education. Revoking the degree does not revoke the education which is, short of extenuating circumstances, deserving of certification. When you're hired, you're hired for the education; the degree is just convenient standardized proof you have it.
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This site is what you're looking for:

http://www.startupvitamins.com
...without going anywhere near your garage? ;-)
yup, that definitely crashed my IE. I'm not quite sure what I expected.
> Compute node downloads such image, puts it on a local disk and boots a VM. This method makes it impossible to use the highly desired live migration

That's not true. Live migration is possible both with glance images and cinder volumes.
Are these 2D games?
Legally, a door locked with a flimsy easily broken lock is locked.
The post I was responding to did refer to the sandwich comment as a "joke" and jokes are generally defined to be "funny." I would not consider the sandwich comment a joke, myself, since it doesn't fulfill the criteria I have for a joke, but apparently the poster I was responding to does consider it a joke (even if not one he likes, per se). Thus to the poster it does fulfill the criteria for a joke, whether good or not, and thus it is not inaccurate to rephrase those criteria, including funniness.
No penalties. Diplomacy.
Forcing penalties is acknowledging that you lost. Lawyers love that everyone-lost-lawyer-wins attitude.

The best way to adjust client's "too-busy-for-me" attitude is to push client's weak spot.

It could be delaying deliverable (until fully paid), it could be disabling features (until fully paid), it could be threat of blogging about client's ability to pay (scares the shit out of clients who are thriving for public impression of success), it could be requirement to pay upfront 50%-100% of contract cost.

The key is to be subtle but clear without threats or pressure by presenting your game as business as usual, giving client clear and easy way to solve all issues by paying.
Also, since there is no downloadable binary, you must compile the code yourself.