skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yield = Interest rate. This is inverse to the price of the bond.

Why is that?

Isn't the interest rate of a bond a constant that is set by the seller of the bond? So if the bond becomes more risky, the interest rate doesn't change, but the market value of the bond goes down.

Put differently, the Treasury could offer a bond with a higher interest rate, but for the same "amount," in order to raise more money.

I don't know anything about bonds or the Treasury, and I am just trying to reason it out, so please let me know if I have a mistaken premise.
I'm adding from 1. the facebook group 2. anyone that tweets that they're going to startup school 3. from here (now). You're both added.
Those people have psychological problems. They think that they are "hacking the system" and living for free while they can use that energy and hard work that you mention to live much better by integrating to society and following the system.
> PayPal will offer the same service to you with "micropayments" pricing

Just a warning to anyone that reads this: Last I tried (February 2013), micropayments were completely broken. Payments would fail for any customer that didn't have enough to cover the transaction as positive PayPal balance (eg. everybody - I never have more than $0 in my PayPal account).
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> As long as the engineers who design and build the internet care, we can do ok.

If the engineers who designed and built the internet cared about privacy, internet protocols wouldn't completely ignore privacy. They designed a massive routed network that involves packet forwarding between random untrusted nodes and then built a bunch of plain-text protocols on top (SMTP, HTTP, etc).

> how many of them want their webcams capturing video of them walking around their rooms naked or wake up one morning and notice their brokerage account is empty?

Probably none, but the government wouldn't do that. That's not how abuse of power works in liberal democracies. Targeting the majority is a voter-loser. You have to target minorities: hacktivists, terrorists, etc.

> It is quite an irony that governments demand one set of standards for privacy and security while attempting to compromise them for their own benefit

Nothing ironic about it. The whole premise of liberal democracy is that government needs to exist as an entity with powers superior to those of individuals, but as a check on that power must be subject to majoritarian control. You don't have to agree with that premise, but it's consistent with different standards of privacy for individuals and the government.
I wonder how much of go (et al.) channels abstractions could be done this way.
There have been tons and tons of serious investors claiming T-bills are the most risky assets class since at least 2005:

Marc Faber, Jim Rogers, Kyle Bass, Peter Schiff, list goes on and on.

Hoarding gold since 2005 and tell you one thing - just can't wait.
Lets give up our freedoms to install programs, modify operating systems, write native code, use a programming language of choice, freely deploy native apps to users to get the freedom to consume media inside a browser sandbox.
I don't know what fraction of AWS users are outside of the US, but I'm sure it's not a completely trivial number. Please, find a way for us to use services like this. I know there's legal and accounting headaches involved, but they can't be any worse than the headaches involved in buying land and building datacenters, and you manage to do that just fine.

Seriously, my startup (tarsnap) is almost entirely AWS-based (the other exception is email -- I use sendgrid because SES is incompatible with public mailing lists) and I'd love to offer Amazon Payments as an option to my customers, but because I'm based in Canada it's not an option.
Interesting conclusion. However, notice that most of the energy (in thermodynamical sense) in this "work" is not spent on moving electrons in the computer around, nor even in the C++-land, but in concept-space. We do our work by building castles in the air out of abstract mental structures, and only then we formalize it in code that moves electrons around.

When I look at the end results of work, I come to the same conclusion that indeed it ultimately consists of reconfiguring matter. That's what we need to do to reach whatever goals we have. Maybe the conceptspace work maps to the levels of intricacy of the end-result matter configuration, i.e. the more complex, precise thing you want to get, the more energy you need to expend on thinking rather than arranging atoms. It's easier to move a ton of bricks from one place to another than to design a microprocessor.

So I guess that ultimately I agree with your comment.

(disclaimer: writing this after two beers)
Maybe it's because Riemann sphere is nothing else but a complex projective line, but I guess the reason you feel they're related is that both of these are manifolds which are created by performing certain identifications of points inside flat prototypes.
> You have to do it by hand you know.

Periodically iterating through a set of links and comparing the returned content to a cached copy is trivial to implement.
The Telegraph takes a potshot at the Grauniad? I'd have never thought it.
I did actually miss that part. I figured he gave them an electronic copy when he shut down.

Minimally, he gave them an "illegible copy." in 4 point font.Assuming its the actual key, I'm sure the FBI or NSA can OCR that. Even if parts of it are screwed up, SSL private keys actually have a fair amount of structure in them(at least enough to recover from someone writer "FUCK A DUCK" over and over again over part of one [0]) and even if say half the bits of the key give are illegible totally, the rest give you more than enough to factor it.

[0]http://crypto.2012.rump.cr.yp.to/87d4905b6d2fbc6ad2389debb73...
It's just how things are defined. Bonds have a value. Bonds have a term. Bonds have a price. The first two are fixed; the third changes with supply and demand. The yield is defined implicitly by these.
Any information on whether the different browsers use gamma-correct resizing?
Ok, let's keep this in perspective. The problem here is Lavabit was specifically designed to disallow lawful intercepts of individuals.

Targeting individuals is absolutely the right way to go about a lawful intercept. Sucking up all traffic like the NSA has been doing is totally overbroad and invasive.

But the whole point of the asymmetric encryption feature of Lavabit was to make it impossible for anyone but the account holder to access their email. This is obviously why Snowden used the service. Duh. And this is why the government resorted to threatening to seize the keys and trying to impersonate the service.

What actually happened is, in the court proceedings Lavabit responded to this by offering to make modifications to the service to essentially wiretap an individual account without handing over the keys. Thus confirming the problem the government faced. But by this point the government didn't trust him to act as a spy on their behalf (which frankly is not an unreasonable assumption).

To be absolutely clear, I am taking no position on the justness of the government's targeting of Snowden. Personally I think he's a hero.

But surely we can all agree there exist circumstances under which some lawful intercepts are justified: child pornographers, terrorists actively planning murders, missing persons, etc.

The problem is Lavabit was not designed to facilitate intercepts under any circumstances. That is why the keys were seized.

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-l...
Please describe a use-case for linked lists in Ruby and/or Rails where Array would not suffice.
You know he's hopeless. I doubt he does. Also, I do not.
"A Lannister always pays his debts"
What do you see as the external pressure?
Did I just upload my private SSL keys to the NSA?
With the Lavabit SSL key seizure [1,2], the US Government and the US courts have shown that they'll take the private keys if they feel they need them.

Have e.g. AWS received similar orders for keys used with ELBs? Or anything on the EC2 VMs? Or CloudFlare?

When I upload my private key to these services, does it go straight to the NSA keystore? Or do they only seize certain keys? Or no keys at all and I can take off my tinfoil hat now? Can we know?

What happens when an NSA employee is disgruntled / makes a mistake / becomes a mole / whatever and leaks the entire keystore?

Did we all already know? Should I stop tinfoiling? Should we trust that they don't do this? Should I never have been such a lazy moron as to use any such services?

Sigh

For the record I believe the government should be able to do warrant-based eavesdropping etc of specific individuals - it's the dragnet aspect to this whole mess that just breaks my heart. So there's no need to put me on that list you got there Mr USG...

Sigh^2

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6517553
[2]: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-lavabit-edward-snowden-email-service-melted-down.html
According to the New Yorker piece on Lavabit yesterday (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-l...), the owner was willing to add code tailored to tracing only Snowden's (or whoever it belonged to) account. The FBI turned him down and demanded the less surgical option.
I actually did exactly this exactly a few years ago (I thought I was so clever). I had a video with hardcoded subtitles, which I wanted to transcribe; I couldn't just let mplayer run because I cannot transcribe in realtime, and slowing it down would still be a problem because it would take much more time and would necessitate backtracking.

So, I set up a FIFO like described, and then I bound the key '1' in Emacs to echo 'p' to it. Voila. I could seamlessly pause and unpause the video while typing away furiously. The strategy was quite a hack, but it worked very well for my purpose.
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I'm glad you asked, I was thinking the same thing. Nice work though, you get a bookmark on my computer!

http://www.radiumcrm.com
That's because traditional schools teach CS, not web programming.
The Control facility lets you reuse the connection, bit not the session. So you still need two sessions, say, one ssh and one scp.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
Uh, the president can't print money. What he is constitutionally required to do is pay US debts before anything else. That means social security, the military, the white house janitor, etc, all get paid 2nd (or 3rd, etc). We're a long way from an actual default.
No rss feed? :(
> you can't find forum software not implemented in PHP

Worth mention:
http://www.discourse.org
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You can do all that with Chrome OS. It's called developer mode...

Advancing the web still makes sense.
And we, even community-minded people like Eric Dunn, can't stomach the thought of just giving people money.

Says who? Isn't Switzerland talking about doing just this, and doesn't Switzerland inarguably have a higher standard of living than the US?
In Go you can control the length of the channel queue, and chan create a zero-buffering channel which blocks the writer until a reader is available. Unfortunately mkfifo does not seem to allow this at all.
we're betting that educational depth will operate as leverage

How? That is an assumption, but why to you think it is a good one? That seems to be te question put to you by the PP. It is the micro-analytics of leverage that are in doubt.
I am not offended at all by her trying to get out of the shitty situation, and she has my sympathies for the situation she found herself in, however after seeing a fair few instances of the DMCA being used in the past for censorship as opposed to "protecting copyright" (and yes i realise she owns the copyright on the photo, so technically it can be considered protecting copyright) where it has turned into a streisand effect. including people replicating the hosting of the image/video/media in thousands of places to rebel against the censorship of the internet, based on a law from a single country
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It has been mentioned in Essays on China by Simon Leys (I read it in French).
The chart may hide the fact that VIX has risen 20+% since Oct 1st when the shutdown began.
I disagree with the premise. I don't believe that a service should be required by law to provide the possibility for the government to intercept the activity of its users.

You can always say "but the child pornographers!" or, "but the terrorists!"... but... no, sorry. I believe that people should have the ability to engage in total privacy. The fact that the US gov't is doing this because of Snowden (a person I admire) just reinforces my belief.
Only after he refused to do it initially. Read the case file: it's not hard and has a lot of detail reporters miss.
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The term for this is heteroskedasticity, which I've never spelled right.

Essentially, volatile events are not evenly spaced-- volatility tends to cluster around events.
It's a good fix and no bad thing to point out, and I'm not just saying that because I was about to point out the same thing before I noticed you'd beat me to it.
A VIX above 20 is pretty significant.
...and a solution that would fail to preserve the chain of evidence. If there's a black box at any point, e.g. Levison produces information and emails it to the investigating officers, the doctrine of "fruit of the poisoned tree" applies.
Gnumeric is better...
I don't care what anyone else says, this is a genius idea. I cannot believe that nobody has ever thought of creating a smart smoke alarm like this before. I think many of us have been guilty of taking out our smoke alarm batteries when it goes off because you like your steaks well-done or burnt your toast because you had to pee. And I know a few people guilty of removing the batteries from smoke detectors because they're chirping that the battery needs to be replaced and can't be bothered to replace it, which is plain stupid and dangerous.

The one issue with smoke detectors that Nest solves is not the annoyance of it going off during dinner, it's the annoyance of when you have multiple smoke detectors in close proximity and you can hear one of them chirping randomly that its battery needs replacing, but you don't know which one it is. You stand around like an idiot waiting for it to chirp again, but it's so random you get frustrated waiting and give up. The colour coding aspect of this product alone is something even generic cheap smoke detectors should integrate to better show when batteries need replacing. I think it would save lives.
I'm really conflicted on what opinion to have of this. On the one hand, these PHP constructs are even worse than most of what you see in that language, but on the other hand, constraining PHP sources to a maximum length of 140 characters should help reduce the scope of the contagion.
Do you mean like how the U.S. Postal service has been recording senders and recipients for decades? It's not a good analogy.
> But software companies (in yellow) lag far behind the other industries on this metric: they typically generate 25% fewer revenues per employee, and a few smaller ones are operating on under $100k per employee. I believe much of that is due to the increased interest in funding software companies over the last few years (allowing money-losing companies to grow), though some might also be due to lower operating costs.

Those might play a role, but wouldn't it be more likely that most software startups are optimizing for something other than revenue? Most take funding specifically so they can not worry about revenue, and instead focus on user growth.
This is going to be tough. A lot of merchants won't want a competitor (Amazon) to be anywhere near their site - especially at checkout. "Oh yeah, pay by Amazon. I wonder if they have this item cheaper there" Typically PayPal and Apple don't have that conflict
This is a smart move (ignoring their half assed attempts earlier in their lives).

1. Vertical integration with merchants that sell on amazon and their own websites
2. Encourage merchants to inventory, and fulfill and transact via amazon
3. Enable a Global marketplace for their merchants
4. Next step, subscriptions and data.

But it all hinges on execution...
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Aah, yeah, it does do that. I can see that being annoying. And somewhat surprisingly, it doesn't fall back to search if you prefix with a space, so you're practically stuck adding a fake search term or some other annoying kludge...

Fwiw that has also been (generally) preferable for me: going to .local domains is a PITA on Chrome because it tries to search for it first.
GWAS studies are extremely expensive studies, often in the hundreds of thousands of dollars in SNP chips alone, and will get published somewhere, somehow. If they don't find results they get published in lesser journals, because there's always something to be said even if there are not significant associations.

It's the same with academic clinical trials, even negative results get published, because for those academics they still need something to show, and a publication of a negative result is better than nothing.

Non-publication bias is more common in less expensive, more exploratory settings, where there are lots of little experiments going on all the time. This is quite different from GWAS.
Also: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/4
That's not funny. Horrifying, maybe, but not funny.

Edit: Strike 'maybe'. I looked at it again and it's definitely horrifying. I saved it anyway, though; Halloween's only a few weeks off, and I think I shall print it out and stick it on the wall of my cube next to the PHP hammer and the "periodic" table of Perl 6 operators.
U.S. debt will still be among the safest assets (as opposed to the safest, which it still could be).

Edit: I don't think that defaulting on or debt wouldn't lead to catastrophic consequences. Nor am I an economist.
So, it seems like you're saying that if you can brute-force two ciphers, you can brute-force the composition of ciphers.

It's still twice as hard, correct? And if you have two ciphers, one of which is compromised in some way, wouldn't this composition mean that you're at least as secure as the most secure of the two ciphers?

Also, how does 3DES get away with this? I read on wikipedia (after I looked up the meet in the middle attack) that 3DES encrypts, then decrypts with a second key, then encrypts, and presumably decrypts-encrypts-decrypts on 3DES-decryption -- how is this different?

(Thanks for answering these questions; it's contributed to my knowledge of crypto and I really appreciate it.)
Yes. But in peace time we do not lose more than half the countries manhours blowing other countries up.
I'll forward your remarks to the devcenter staff and the steward of the changes; I'm sure both parties will appreciate it a lot.
> I believe that people should have the ability to engage total privacy.

They already have the ability to do this.

That's not what you are asking for. What you are really asking for is:

"I believe that people should have the ability to engage total privacy through any means of communication they so choose."
Crypto is no substitute for tradecraft.
From the conclusion:
The simple fact of moving to 64-bit does little. It makes for slightly faster computations in some cases, somewhat higher memory usage for most programs, and makes certain programming techniques more viable. Overall, it's not hugely significant.

So it isn't a huge deal. It's the overall package that adds up to a much faster SOC.
> No - it is a plan that the government doesn't work with service provider and instead demands data and intercepts that "just happen" to let them spy on an entire network.

It's interesting that you attack the FBI when you hear them make an unsubstantiated claim, but you have no problem repeating claims you heard on internet forums. When you make claims like this with certainty, it weakens your position and reveals that you don't know what you're talking about.
Also software often has higher gross margins, so the net profit per employee theoretically could be higher than a company with higher revenue per employee.
I call "Bullshit" on that.

For all of the talk about "all men created equal" and "do to others as you would have them do to you", fundamentally Americans are brought up to believe they are different or "exceptional" to other humans. This belief let's them distort reality so that spying on innocent foreigners is ok but spying on innocent Americans is an abomination. Hypocrisy.

Timothy McVeigh and others prove that the domestic threat to the US is as serious as the foreign.
Is "Locksley" meant to be a play on Dread Pirate Roberts (characters played by Cary Elwes)?
Or run for office yourself. I would vote for a centrist candidate that offered a bill that declared email as sacrosanct as a telephone call or postal mail.
Right, but it's the overall package made possible by moving to a new 64-bit architecture.

It's a subtle distinction that can be hard to communicate, but while "64-bit" is not all that interesting, "moving to 64-bit" is in this case.

A lot of the improvement wouldn't be possible without the new architecture. In theory, you could do a new 32-bit architecture that has all the same benefits, but that would be terribly pointless.
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More or less, thanks!
What does massive surveillance have to do with the Lavabit action?
Your argument against the ability to wiretap child pornographers and terrorists is "no, sorry".

That's not a very complete argument.
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It all seems a bit regimented. What if I don't want to have a child with the first person I meet when I'm 22. No offense to her, but I really wouldn't want to have a child (or two) with my 22 year old selfs girlfriend.
That's a fair point zamfi. Though I think that the ability to take that approach is due largely to the supportive funding environment. Ben Horowitz's post today speaks to that point as well: http://bhorowitz.com/2013/10/08/cash-flow-and-destiny/
A 2009 study, "Why Do U.S. Firms Hold So Much More Cash than They Used To" [1], investigated the doubling of U.S. cash-to-asset ratios between 1980 and 2006.

Similar to Ben, they find that "firms hold cash to better cope with adverse shocks when access to capital markets is costly. Consistent with this perspective, OPSW find that firms with riskier cash flows and poor access to external capital hold more cash. The precautionary motive also suggests that firms with better investment opportunities hold more cash because adverse shocks and financial distress are more costly for them."

Tech moves quickly. This means tech firms are more (1) ephemeral and (2) dependent on properly timing bold moves. (1) makes markets, and thus capital availability, more jittery in the face of adverse information. (2) makes firms less tolerant of aforementioned jitteriness. Hence Apple's $150 billion cash balance.

[1] http://118.96.136.31/ejurnal/journal%20of%20finance%202009_v... Bates, Kahle and Stulz (2009)
That's interesting - thanks for the explanation. I will check on that research study.
No. You must be thinking of one of the many ways of extending life in mice through germline genetic alteration or other non-SENS-like methods.

As to where the SENS Research Foundation is, you can look at their annual reports - it's all still foundation work on the necessary technologies at this point, and $4M/yr is nowhere near enough funding for optimal progress:

http://sens.org/about/organizational-reports