skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it also has to do with a rush new votes up or down. Sort of trending
Nokia will offer free Netflix to buyers of its latest Windows Phones
It's not that simple.

Yes, the installed base is going to keep TLS 1.0 and the legacy SSL block cipher construction in deployment for a long time.

Yes, smart people (among them AGL) have said that the RC4 attack is less practical than the M-t-E timing attack on the SSL CBC ciphers. (By the way, it would be great if we could start putting the blame on M-t-E instead of CBC; the vulnerability isn't in CBC per se. CBC is fine; M-t-E is proven not to be.)

But:

* The timing attack also has remediations (see AGL's famous NSS patch) which don't change the protocol.

* The timing attack is fundamentally unlikely to get more powerful; it's exploiting a very simple, well-understood problem.

* Work on exploiting the RC4 attack is in its infancy, and there are multiple ways the attack could get both fundamentally more powerful and more efficiently implemented.

* There are no software-only fixes to the RC4 problem that don't break the protocol; RC4 is fundamentally and irrevocably broken.
How the .0001% Made Its Money
You can see the person's finger (or the CastAR wand's tip). I imagine the rendering engine will show the same thing in the same place relative to the real world for both users. It doesn't have to, in the case of a game where you each have your own point of view, but it could if the game works well that way.
If he explained it all in the article, how could he sell his book?
This is why hashes for hashtables and similar datastructures are seeded with a random value upon interpreter startup. This throws off your attack well enough to make it barely feasible with a hashing algorithm that distributes sufficiently random. There was a round of DoS vulnerabilities against PHP, Ruby, Java, ..., all based on that attack vector a while ago, but those were all fixed.
I find it interesting that everyone sees this as a sliding scale with culture on one side and rent on the other. There's a third variable that the city could play with to keep the rent down while not building a single building:

Raise Taxes

If you want to lower prices and you can't/won't increase supply, the obvious solution is to lower demand. Adding a sharp jump in the local income tax at a high income level will free up housing space as wealthy citizens leave the city. The less affluent won't see a tax increase, since it's outside their bracket, but they will see housing become available, lowering rent prices.

Of course, this will be a hit on the economy as all the wealthy individuals leave the area, but it decreases rent while keeping culture constant.
The Work Habits of Creative People
What I learned from that experience is that there is no such thing as useful information that comes from a company's management. Now I diversify and let the lying get smoothed out by all the other variables in my investments.

I've found that this can be as true for internal communication as external, at least once it goes beyond the communication of immediate assignments and expectations.

You know those "business unit", "segment", "all hands" and the like "state of the business" meetings? Yeah, those.

Actually, sometimes those are not exactly zero content. The more they try to convince you that something isn't, the more you may be inclined to assume that it actually is.
Frida: cross-platform process inspection and manipulation with JavaScript
Adams doesn't disagree:

"I've been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion.

The ones that didn't work out—and that would be most of them—slowly drained my passion as they failed. The few that worked became more exciting as they succeeded."
San Jose to SF is, by East Coast standards, a pretty long ways. Newark to New York is about 10 miles. SF to San Jose is about 50 - more comparable to New York to New Brunswick or Trenton or Stamford.

Find me a 50-ish-mile distance in the US that is easier to cover by public transit than SF/San Jose. Boston/Providence? DC/Baltimore? Philadelphia/Wilmington? New York/Trenton? Comparable at best, but in all cases, you're generally talking the absolute far edge of regional rail that runs hourly at best.
Do you want to make the gamble that every server has "honor cipher order" on and configured in a saner way?
House Judiciary Chairman: Government classification system has been ‘abused’
Unlikely unless large banking cartels take over this service (which is possible). In any case there is approximately a century to figure this out.
"Nobel" in economic "science".
This is one of the best article I have read in weeks.

Life is about "karma" and not associating you to the results. Mr. Linus Torvalds never made a "goal" to make linux run in every server on this planet. I don't know what is his real inspiration behind working on Linux, But one thing is clear that he succeeded. Everybody has his own reason to follow his/her path.

Sometimes we don't even have a reason. We just go with the flow and keep learning what life gives us. Just by keeping our direction right in the flow, we will eventually reach our "goal". If we keep looking at the goals, we will never be able to look at our rocky path and eventually fall down. Making goals is wise. But sticking yourself to its result isn't.

Every work we do is our karma. Writing this is also a karma. I'm not talking about HN "karma", but real karma. It is about sharing my views with the community. I learn from the community, so maybe someone will learn from me. This is how community works. Thats my karma.

The word karma gained popularity from this famous verse of Bhagavad Gita :

karmany evadhikaras te
ma phalesu kadachana
ma karma-phala-hetur bhur
ma te sango ’stv akarmani

It means :

You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.

I am just gonna conclude this with board that I recently saw in Apple's recent iPhone event.

http://oi44.tinypic.com/2uqd3es.jpg
> Now, the article did mention "infill" which sounds more urban, so maybe there's a difference in the city and county of Seattle?

Seattle is in King County, which has a total area of 2,307 sq. mi. This is clearly referring to the city proper, which is, as you note, still much bigger than the City and County of SF, and much less densely populated to start with.
This cows on natural prairies idea is pretty much bullshit. Unless you are talking about some maasai tribes that bleed out their cattle for protein shakes. Cattle farming is huge agricultural business. And for most people their meat is farmed (with additional inputs).

Europeans decimated the Americas for their corn fed fatty marbled cattle. The rainforests are being cleared for soy, as with most arable crops a high percentage are grown as animal feeds. So there isn't any escape. Eating a cow has collateral damage too.

Take a fraction of those arable crops, don't bother meat farming and move over to better farming methods that are more in tune with nature. It's a balancing act.

If you haven't any ethical qualms about meat eating then you can still farm those fringe places pastorally - reindeer, goats, kangaroos etc.
I remember reading a typically opinionated article on the The Register where the claim was made that pumped storage doesn't scale very well. Or rather, it scales fine, but your country will look very different when you've finished the necessary building work.
I read that as "One in 10" as within their lifetime and the NPR stat as per year, but they're both pretty ambiguous.
I have no idea what this comment is even trying to say. I have no idea what MD5 has to do with bcrypt, and I have no idea what "nihilism" has to do with the fact that HMAC-MD5 isn't broken. We didn't just "discover" that MD5 was weak; Paul Kocher knew it was weak when SSL 3.0 was standardized back in 1996, which is why the SSL 3.0 handshake PRF uses both SHA-1 and MD5.

Yours is the kind of comment anyone can write without knowing anything whatsoever about cryptography, so I'm wary of going into more detail.
How does the omni control the game? Just curious.
The free market will decide on that, and it will be fair. Even if we end up with ~3% fees, it would be totally worth it knowing that your account can't be randomly frozen, or your funds stolen by whoever is in charge of the fake wars (eg: war on drugs).
Computer-Controlled Urban Aeroponic Farming
It's not surprising, and it is not peculiar to FNV-1a. Most of these hashes will exhibit this same behavior.

Since the hash iterates over the characters in the string, once you find two colliding strings S and T, if you append any other string to both S and T, the hashes of S' and T' will also be identical. Try it yourself:

#include <stdio.h>
#include "hash_32a.c"
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
const char* s[] = {
"altarage",
"zinke",
"altarage_foo",
"zinke_foo",
"altarage_xyzzy",
"zinke_xyzzy"
};
int i;
for (i = 0; i < sizeof s / sizeof (char*); ++i)
{
Fnv32_t x = fnv_32a_str(s[i], FNV1_32A_INIT);
printf("%s: %08x\n", s[i], x);
}
}

$ ./test_fnv1a
altarage: e460d8b6
zinke: e460d8b6
altarage_foo: 3d8619c5
zinke_foo: 3d8619c5
altarage_xyzzy: 2a6373cf
zinke_xyzzy: 2a6373cf
This is almost entirely this post from a week ago: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/10/07/how-big-is-your-ci...
How not to validate email addresses
Do you have a link to an example of somebody doing that? All the headlines regarding climate science seem to be about fitting a curve to previous decades' data.
Fox News launched in 1996, hardly as established as the big 3 news networks, especially when we're following the evolution of media since the Vietnam era.

WSJ launched in 1889, so it would definitely be considered "establishment."

Of course I wouldn't mention anything that would damage my own position in the argument ;-)
No, the mechanism by which that service is operated is inherently wasteful. You need to continuously increase your computing resources until half the resources in existence are devoted to Bitcoin mining.

Meanwhile the systems developed by crypto researchers more than twenty years ago solve the same problem, have well-defined security notions and guarantees, use substantially less power, scale better, permit secure offline transactions, and do not require a complete rethinking of modern economic theory to make sense. Of course, those systems all failed due to poor management, lack of demand, and so forth; Bitcoin has seen better management and appeals to a particular political position, and has thus succeeded (at the cost of an increasing amount of coal burned for its sake).
Linus Torvalds announces Linux 3.12-rc5 after a relatively calm week
More importantly, it's not worth going back. At a certain point, it becomes actually less work to start over than to try to cut that Gordian Knot.

The problem then is when business logic is encapsulated in the mud.
There's also Steven Frank's http://decentralizer.com/
You are correct.

No, because the payer can decide the fee to pay, and the miner can decide the minimum he will accept. So the free market will take care of the fees for the miners.
Mostly wrong.

Arc is a success by what measure? Sure, it's passion, but timecube is also passion.

pg's first startup was an online art gallery. He was passionate about art. Nobody wanted it. They switched to a built-to-flip online store with no passion besides getting rich off 90s computer madness. That part worked.
That was the piece that caught my eye too :)
Access backdoor found in D-Link router firmware code
> This is the same kind of thinking I hear daily when people say things like, "Just use bcrypt" without thinking about the consequences

I'll say what everyone's thinking: What are the consequences?
I always thought that public transit in the tri-state area was something you could not get anywhere else in the country and this article helps enforce that thought. However, it does bother me that gentrification moves people out of areas they once called home, and I wish this was not the collateral damage of what otherwise seems to be a positive trend. I certainly would not like to have to move because people who can pay more than me move in and force me out of my town. Then again, if moving to the town next door forces schools and services to become better, than maybe it's not so bad. It looks to me like no matter how positive the intentions, supply and demand will always rule along with their friend $$.
This is in line with thinking of startups as a career: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/are-you-in-a-sta...
Complete and utter undocumented nonsense from an untrustworthy source.
I bet this is stupidity, not NSA.
You make some good points.

One interesting thing to contemplate is how would an establishment journalism organization do infotainment... we'll, videos of Kardashians in bikinis are not going to work in ink on paper physical newspapers. Maybe the way they would entertain while sorta informing would be to allow discredited cheerleaders a propaganda mouthpiece for entertainment of the readers (in addition to your valid point about just keeping up to date with current events). Some topics are out of bounds because rocking the boat usually isn't entertainment. And everyone else in their industry is in a race toward the fluff, and there's at least some interaction between those different lines of business, maybe not a lot, but some. If they intentionally went for pure infotainment, the wouldn't have to go too far off course, just a little further along the path they're apparently already on.

I'm too young to do physical papers. I checked out nytimes.com and "Upworthy’s Viral Content Is Taking Off" apparently about youtube marketing. "The new albums of Pusha T and Cam’ron show they have..." "Mr. Gunn, a recent Emmy Award recipient, has emerged as a breakout star of “Project Runway.”" "William Wegman lives with his family and oft-depicted dogs in a pair of connected buildings in Chelsea." To be fair I admit they keep real news at the top and push the fluff downpage, but its looking perhaps 1/3 to 1/2 fluffy on their web front page. What they need are some lasagna recipes, add some young women posing in bikinis, tone down the editorializing, cut the hard news by about half, that would make them yellow journalism infotainment with the best. The point isn't that it could be turned into yellow journalism, which is obvious, but that its not far to go. They're about a new editor and one page redesign away, not really all that far.
Less than Bitcoin, at least per capita, by an enormous margin (multiple orders of magnitude). You do not need half the computing power in the entire world devoted to paper cash, the banking system, or any of the other methods of making secure payments (and even insecure payments) that exist outside the universe of Bitcoin.
Except that it has, at least once that I know of, one a friend who build a 16 video card setup in a re-purposed NetApp filer box, cost them $4,500 to put together all told and they sold enough bitcoin on the first bubble to return a bit more than double that ($10K). That setup is too slow these days (and it ran for about 6 months, so figure the cost of 6 months of electricity at (basically 36kWH/day, which at 25c/kW added another $1638 to his cost, but his heating bills were lower :-)

What happens though is that the goal posts move, and of course if you get yours late and the difficulty has increased after you get one and you're under performing, well you lose. A number of people on the various forums claim to have made money on their miner setups as well but the forums are not really verifiable sources.

As far as I can tell it works when the market price for bitcoin greatly exceeds their cost to produce, and that seems to happen frequently.
Yes, you might have a point, depending on the application - but I guess most apps do have their own set of "backend servers", so modifying the servers or the client should be pretty much the same effort. Modifying the server doesnt need a client side update, though.
Fair. I just had a look at the numbers. Is less clear when you drill down to individual countries and if you only look at the most virulent diseases, also with a lot of the funding, like the global fund for instance, many of the EC countries donate twice, once as part of their EC obligation, and again as a national donation, so you may miss a lot if you just look at EC funds. But you are definitely right overall, the US state spending seems massive in comparison.

Mind you, this got me thinking, if you were going to expect any of that to affect the pricing of essential drugs, you would expect it to push prices down in the US, given there is what amounts to the worlds largest drugs industry subsidy. Also, I notice that big pharma is not generally skint, so if there is a shortage of new drugs (is this actually true in general, or is it just truthiness?), I would agree with you that it is not down to a shortage of money.
Somewhat related to what your asking, but according to a rather famous study done by KA Ericsson on Deliberate Practice and it's effect of learning, the optimal learning (for violinists and I've seen similar results when applied to my Mixed Martial Artists) is 90 minutes of deliberate activity, a short break, 90 minutes of further deliberate practice, followed by a second break, by another 90 minutes of deliberate practice. (Time for training sessions is of course the enemy, and practice is deliberate enough to cause mental and physical fatigue).

Source: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/D...
Here's an in-depth example for the curious:
https://github.com/frida/frida-python/wiki/Tutorial:-Inspect...
Interestingly, Google Chrome for Android is one of the few browsers I've seen that supports TLS 1.2 with AES-GCM
Wikipedia is my modern and globalized version of CliffsNotes. I only deep dive into sources and research if I happen upon a subject incredibly interesting to me (my "fun" reading) or might help me get ahead with one of my projects (my "work" reading).

As for HN, this site provides more of the guilty pleasure of looking inside the tech bubble than actually being an incredible source of information. So to me it lies somewhere between the national news and Wikipedia.
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So now apparently, only Chrome is supported on Google properties
I don't think so, the raw data should be much more accurate down to deci-, if no centimeters.
UGH. Why do we have to keep fucking this up, guys? Treat women with respect and decency, it's not that difficult. Sigh.
We have Yahoo offering a T-shirt and Microsoft offering $100k for bug bounties. I guess Prezi is offering a golden mean?
This does happen in droves, but it's more when kids reach elementary school age. SF is a pretty difficult city when it comes to ensuring your kid gets into a decent elementary school, so that's one point at which many people leave. Not to mention that you don't have to go far in any direction (north to Marin, east to Berkeley, south to Palo Alto) and you have fantastic public schools.
Why Your GPA Doesn't Really Matter
I guess it sucks to live in Wyoming, which is still looking at the idea of a state exchange while it defaults to healthcare.gov for 2014, per http://www.healthinsurance.org/wyoming-state-health-insuranc...
My question would be: How will the blockchain stop attacks when all the bitcoins have been mined, but computing power continues to increase thereafter, even at a slowing rate?

Couldn't someone develop better ASICs, long after mining has ended, to launch a 51% attack? Granted it would be expensive, wouldn't that expense decrease continuously?
Awesome! This is exactly what I need for my daily work with Emacs! (tried mmm before, but it was crazily unstable and slow).
Just found this the other day. Been working like a charm for HTML and some ERB templates.
This is a great point.

Especially because as I read the article, I could tell the title was sensationalized to indicate that the article would tell you how to be successful.

I like the content of the article though. It was a thought provoking argument for a system based approach to motivation rather than a goal oriented approach. I also liked the autobiographical parts.

Its kind of sad to see that even people with something genuine to say need to dress it up to be generic so that they will get more exposure.
To subsidize affordable homes for 100,000 people would cost $25 billion.

and then another 100,000 people would move in there.

So yes, we should build as much subsidized affordable housing as we can.

Skip as many meals as you want, work as many hours and you want to do that. People can move to different cities you know...
I have a freezer full of pastured beef & game venison and that's pretty much all I eat in terms of protein. I have piles of grass fed butter in my fridge. What's bullshit about that?
Yes, $500 is pretty common for these security bug bounty programs: https://bugcrowd.com/list-of-bug-bounty-programs/
Lifelong procrastinator tracks productivity for 14 days.
Assuming that the hash function does not need to be changed for some reason, of course. That is part of the risk of using hardware crypto: a vulnerability in the cryptosystem is expensive to fix.
Capital is stuff people want. It's a warehouse full of couches, or a truck full of iPads. Or, on a desert island, a pile of hand-carved tools. We can trade this "stuff people want" for "stuff we want."

Over time, we've developed abstractions called "dollar bills" that represent stuff people want. This allows me to have a more general form of capital--instead of having to exchange my "stuff people want" for what I want, I simply exchange it for money, and then trade that for what I want. This makes trade much easier--I don't have to find someone who wants 1,000 iPads in exchange for a piece of industrial equipment.

But I repeat--this is just an abstraction. To create $1 or $1,000 or $1,000,000 of capital, resources must first be used to produce things that people want.

Now, in our modern society, there are all sorts of ways to get ahold of these abstractions. Some people work for them. Some people are given them by family members. Some people make bets--at casinos, at horse races, or on the stock market--and win. So it is certainly possible to point at a given possessor of capital and say--"look! he has capital, but has not produced things that people want!" But that's the nature of people who own capital, not of capital itself.
Thanks - all good feedback and we'll work on it!
> This is the same kind of thinking I hear daily when people say things like, "Just use bcrypt" without thinking about the consequences.

Sorry to say, but "just use bcrypt" is currently the right three word statement that you can use if anybody is asking "I'd like to hash a password, and I don't want to learn all of crypto before I do." Bcrypt is currently among the algorithms that are hard to break if used correctly, deployed widely, has wide support in deployed languages and frameworks and it's fairly simple to use. There's little room for major fuckups here.

There are algorithms that are harder to break (scrypt) or an official standard (PBKDF2), but seriously, bcrypt is currently good enough. Sure, it's always better to read and learn, but sometimes people just have to get things done and I'd rather see them use bcrypt than sha1 or unsalted md5.
Okay, on hindsight 14 days is a really short time. It felt like a big deal for me because it's quite possibly the longest I've not-broken-the-chain, ever.

Typically I have some sort of minor screw-up somewhere. But I'm on track, and it feels great, and I hope this is useful to someone.