skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't build a coal power plant speccing in how much variable renewable energy will be produced. You spec for over the max power - in the middle of summer, with all the air conditioners on, and then you throttle down from there. As a utility, you wouldn't depend on someone else's renewable energy if your job is ensure that an area gets power.

That said - the best time for renewable energies to provide power is when the sun is shining the hottest, which for solar based power, coincides nicely with the maximum power use.
If you're using the swipe-to-unlock, you've already lost. Use a strong password, which serves as entropy for encrypting the disk (and check that option).
For general graphs, the situation is indeed poor. For lattices, much more is understood, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Smirnov
I think what he is saying is that many individuals and organizations will not learn the fundamentals behind why X is broken, they only learn "X is broken use Y instead."

They instead should learn that Y is also potentially broken in a given circumstance - and maybe that doesn't apply to my current situation but I need a review process to check that it still doesn't apply to me at a given time in the future.

For someone designing a cryptography application, this understanding should be very deep. I don't think it needs to be as deep for someone who is configuring their Apache server and just needs to know what ciphers to enable and which ones to prefer. In this case it is best to follow an industry best practice based on the type of data being sent over the wire and the compatibility/performance required by the clients/users. Then schedule an annual or quarterly review of those choices to make sure they don't go out of date and keep an eye on security bulletins in case one of them is severely broken.
Breaking Bad is a TV show.
American Idol is also a TV show.

However, Breaking Bad is not American Idol.
Coming next month: this guy gets banned from Google and Google refuses to explain why.
Do you really expect a $5 VPS to be allowed to continue a heavy DOS attack? I wouldn't want to use a provider that did allow that.
There is at least an RFC out for a TLS stream cipher using Salsa20, if I'm remembering current events correctly. Of course publication of a spec will precede implementation in hardware and software by some years, I would imagine.
May a thousand home-made hash tables bloom!
Live in Oakland, take the BART....
anyone do a security audit?
Give up some rights
ihorizon's take on giving up your rights for shares in a Startup.
I see those comments mostly coming from people that used wordpress once in 2005 and never touched it since.
The article goes on to address your point.

From the article:

During the period the researchers investigated, the number of individuals on the Forbes 400 who were the first in their family to run a business rose from 40% to 69%. Sixty percent of individuals on the list grew up wealthy in 1982 while only 32% did in 2011.
I wonder how many bits of entropy that fingerprint has, though. 8 bits would make for an impressive and scary looking demo, for example, but for ad tracking it would be useless.
This article reads like a call for better curation. There's too much information for everyone to be fully informed about everything. But (and here's where I differ) it's not acceptable to just remain ignorant about things I can't affect. If nothing else, I can (and should) react strategically to even the biggest and the most foregone trends.

Journalism is exactly the answer to a call for better curation. News networks, newspapers, blogs, documentary film-makers, and so on, should be providing the high-level view of what is important and nothing more in an age where attention is a scarce resource.

Unfortunately, there isn't (yet) a successful business model for journalism that rewards the content producer for being efficient. That is, newspapers don't get rewarded for not producing a paper on slow news days (or for being shorter in general). Likewise, TV channels cannot pride themselves on providing a twelve-minute newscast covering the same information as the competition.

On the contrary, all modern sources of information (news, facebook, and otherwise) get rewarded for attracting eyeballs as much as possible, so there is an incentive to do the exact opposite: there's no news today, so here's a kitty fashion show or some linkbait to get your blood boiling.
You live in NYC. You have a 24-hr public transportation system going between the boroughs that is a flat fare, per ride, no matter where you go. This makes commuting a very feasible and affordable option for those that can't afford to live in Manhattan.

Things are a bit different in SF. While you have 468 stations, we have 44. Expansion of our public transportation system has been hampered by NIMBY homeowners who have done all they can to prevent it. Rents in areas that surround BART stations (http://www.bart.gov/stations/)are still quite high, except around some of the further out stops (http://rentheatmap.com/sanfrancisco.html). Unfortunately, the further you live from the city, the more it costs to commute to the city (http://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator/).

So while everyone moving away from the city like folks in Manhattan do would be nice, it's not that easy here.

(Aside: I miss New York public transportation.)
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(It's especially unnecessary when replying to someone who already understands the point you're making.)
Just to give you some perspective, I grew up in Concord which is about 25 miles east of San Francisco. My dad bought our house in the late 60's because that was the closest place to SF that he could afford for our family. He commuted for decades to SF and Oakland by car and bart. I never heard him complain about the commute or how the bay area should do something for his family.
Cycle Computing spins up 10,600 instances in AWS
I swear, I was about to post exactly the same thing!

I had to try it a few times, as I was laughing too much too, even have chance, when I first saw the line up of "settings"
This is an interesting paper that was discussed widely on Twitter a few months back. It includes a very useful breakdown of the Linux kernel CSPRNG starting on page 17. The attacks the paper describes start on page 22. The front part of the paper is dominated by a discussion of the theoretical modeling of CSPRNGs, in part because the theoretical foundations for CSPRNGs and their interactions with applications are not well documented.

The most important bit of information you probably want to know about this paper is that it is modeling the security of a CSPRNG when its entropy inputs are entirely controlled by attackers. For instance, one of the attacks involves tricking the entropy estimator into believing it's seeding itself with high-quality random data when that data in fact has no entropy.

This is not a realistic attack scenario for the vast majority (maybe all) of applications.

Having said that, the Linux kernel CSPRNG doesn't (as far as I know) have a particularly well formalized design. There are good CSPRNG designs out there; for instance, the BSDs use Yarrow, and Ferguson followed that design up with Fortuna, which dispenses with the need for entropy estimators altogether.
I beg your pardon? VW is trying to establish a workers' representation in their plant, with politicians actively working against it because they fear that this will, over time, drive up the general level of income, which, in turn, will lead to other car manufacturers moving to other states.

This has little to do with workers taking over from the owner, and everything with wages kept artificially low in order to attract international companies simply because of these artifically low wages.
Wonderland: Safely navigate social rabbit holes (Facebook & Twitter)
IPv6: end users starting to care.
My examples with pairs and n-tuples are also distributions.
Why is it this question and not the other?
> a believable character has to be grounded somewhat from reality.

Yeah, I think there's basically a few classes of characters that authors tend to use:

- Based on somebody they know (or a synthesis of a few people). These are easiest to give reasonable approximations of normal psychologies to. Or at least a good surface description of their behavior seems to be enough for people to fill in the mind of the character.

- A completely artificial character, but constructed on a profile so as to seem real. A bit like how modern artists start drawing characters from a basic frame to give a realistic movement or position, then fill in the details. This I think is harder in literature since you really have to build a detailed profile of the character as a model so that they provide a consistent and believable behavior. But I think this is also limited by what the author understands about people's psychology and behavior. If the author can't figure what motivates a certain kind of behavior, then they can't really build the psych model of the character and you end up with weird, unmotivated characters without agency. Lots of the more painful Literary Fiction I had to suffer through in school is like this. I think this is also dangerous for readers as it conditions them to expect real people to think and behave like this.

- A flat archetype or stereotype for a character the author needs in the story but doesn't know well enough to write about well. So they become part of the background fabric of the story, providing part of the framework for the better defined characters to work within, but never really coming into their own. Even main characters suffer from this.

> And the not-so-good children in Renaissance paintings doesn't affect the quality of Mona Lisa at all.

It's funny you brought up the Mona Lisa, a painting with an expression so strange there's little agreement about what emotion it's conveying at all.
Ok, that's fine, you just want to use 1s and 2s (though it would have been more obvious if you'd just used 0s and 1s :) ).

In that case, you don't have as many 11s and 22s as 12s and 21s (I'm ignoring the commas since they're irrelevant).
Does any TLS stack support Salsa20? I know Adam Langley has a draft for ChaCha+Poly1305, but that's not Salsa20.

Either way, I don't think Salsa20 is a realistic suggestion for improving TLS performance.
No, your sequence IS distinguishable from a uniform sequence. At least it is if I understand what you mean by "...".

If you mean that it generates 1,2,1,2,1,2,1 and then after that generates a mix of different values that include all possible values in approximately equal frequency, then you may have a fairly good PRNG. If you mean that it produces 1,2,1,2,1,2,1 and then after that it continues to alternate between 2 and 1, then this is easily distinguished from uniform.
That is the most commonly cited neighborhood where people are shocked that there is so much crime. That's a very historically depressed neighborhood, less than the old E. 14th days, but just because there are two streets with cute old 1900's houses does not mean it's safe at night.

East Lake isn't that much cheaper than other options, and a mid-high crime dump. You'll be hard pressed to find a resident who's excited to be there, especially after a year or three.
have you looked at plyr/pryr/reshape2 for the preprocessing routine?
ASK: Can we model the economy with modern DB and programming technique?
Just shooting a question out to the HN world.

It seems to me that the symptoms of most of the problems in today's economy play out via unpredictable network effects.

Obviously the majority of the causes of the problems, I would think, are a combination of political retardation (literal and figurative, with apologies), as well as faulty (if not fraudulent) accounting.

Has anyone ever attempted to devise a stats program where our literal economic relationships (individuals connections to banks, companies, salaries, etc) are treated as constants (e.g. run within code), and the "problems" (politics, bad math, etc) can be adjusted variably to see their effects?

Would this even work? Are there too many "known unknowns"? Am I stupider for having said that? I'm just a regular web developer asking big comp sci questions, and feel kind of lost.
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you're quoting the first sentence from the abstract in isolation; there's a lot more detail in the paper. in particular the define the notion of epsilon-closeness (section 2) for any distinguisher (which could include one that detects repeated patterns).
I'm not quite sure what point you're trying to make?

Heather Brooke (the American journalist) made FoI requests about MPs expenses. She started in 2004. She did this because it was a way to get a good story.

House authorities declined to release the information. This went to and fro in courts. The High Court (May 2008) ruled that the information should be released. House authorities agreed to release the information in June 2009 with some redactions. The Telegraph got the leaked disc before June 2009, and started publishing.

It is clear that Heather Brooke's FoI requests started the chain.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Brooke)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Brooke#MPs_expenses)

(http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/tag/mps-expenses/)
> but then decided it wasn't a very efficient space launch platform and stopped using it.

No, they planned on using it again. But the Soviet Union stopped being a thing before that happened. And multiple times there has been interest in reviving Buran.
I will admit to also trying @hotnail and @gmial in the newsletter subscription box and chuckling to myself.
I agree.

Finance created lots of value for the British Empire when they were colonizing countries - where they could raise money to buy navy ships and soldiers.

Finance does create value in the long run. However, it creates minimal value in the short run. Debt being traded in the short run is a zero sum game which does not create any value for the society. Considering that we allocate the best and the brightest people in finance, I would consider it creates negative value to society.
This sequence is trivially distinguishable from something uniform.
The fuel costs are a small portion of the running costs of a nuclear plant, and the other costs don't go down when you shut it down, so there is very little reason to ever produce at less than maximum.
Gödel committed suicide because the Brittish state persecuted him for being gay, which they recently issued an official apology for. To make a headline and article introduction that claims he commites suicide because of his genius is pretty tasteless.
This is not critical Android Lockscreen Bypass, this is HTC One Lockscreen Bypass
The Series Everything Crunch
And for anything else devices do that could have been done in a browser..

Nothing like that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realize you have yet another memory leak, zombie object or mysterious exception in the main run loop to debug!
I would expect them to email me and let me know at least, particularly if I was paying them hundreds of dollars.

I think they're probably inundated with novices who don't do basic securing of their VPSes and experiencing a lot of abuse as a result.
The amount of space impacts the politics as well, though. Seattle's new construction is largely converting ex-industrial zones to residential, not redeveloping existing residential zones, which is much easier to do politically. SF has had that kind of development too: much of SoMA is ex-industrial converted to residential. But there is not nearly as much ex-industrial land in SF compared to Seattle (or Oakland, for that matter).
I appreciate the advice in the sibling posts.

I will consider these while I try to work out what the difference is between what Scott Adams calls a goal vs a system. I can be very pedantic, and I think that is getting in the way of understanding.

I googled "systems vs goals" and actually found another Scott Adams post on the topic, even about excercise :)

http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/systems/

I'm trying to get a more direct handle on the difference so I can better apply it generally.

It seems that when Adams says "goal" he is specifically talking about an endpoint. A destination. And that's a common definition I think.

His use of system seems to still have goals, they are just smaller and easily achieved. They also seem to be more related to triggers or starting points. For example, "go to the gym" not "workout" or "do X reps."

He also provides a relief valve in this case (not having to work out once he gets there if he doesn't feel up to it), so that the pressure of the expected follow through to "going to the gym" is relieved and thus not a deterrent.

So if I were to apply this to walking, it could be something like "put on walking shoes, exercise clothes, and go outside, everyday."

Or for better food: "Go to the store, buy some veggies I like," and maybe add on "go through prep work for cooking them." The relief valve could be that "I don't have to cook and eat this for dinner, but i do have to buy and prep."
This is more of an HTC problem than an Android one, right? Calling it Android is a little misleading.

As an aside, I'm so glad to have stock Android - I really don't miss the days of all the vendor and network 'extras'.
"...Android has the market share, Apple has the mind share and Microsoft..."
> In the real world, people need compatibility more than they need whatever cleanup you're able to do by breaking compatibility.

Time and time again, rolling software has proven to be more secure than static releases. A plugin from five years ago that hasn't been maintained in that time is probably going to hurt you a lot.
This is easy, change the stupid zoning and density restrictions in SF and the builders will come and capitalize on the pent up housing demand. Increased inventory in the main parts of the city will lower prices elsewhere -- basic supply and demand, no subsidies needed.

the city remained a walkable, urban paradise compared to most of America.

Most higher density cities are even more walkable urban paradises. Plus they have the added benefit of far better public transport than SF offers.

SF: 17620/sq mi

NYC: 27550/sq mi

Paris: 55000/sq mi
Technically every university graduate produces thesis, those are published and stored in university library. So for many countries this rate is more like 5 in 10.
Exaggeration is the mother of ... well, something.

An entire intranet functionality with one SQL query per page. Right, okay...
Yes, sure. No one said that the nail makers would be guaranteed a market for their nails. However it might be better for the boot makers to renegotiate their contract? And what is the cost of screwing over your local supplier? Maybe local public services will prefer boots entirely made in $your-country? Economy is way more complicated than always chasing after the biggest short term profits.
Just because it's a valid address doesn't mean a real user is going to sign up for an account using a domain without a TLD.
Very cool visualization.

One of the big points of confusion I've had in understanding the press around this has been trying to rationalize the differences between the (union) statements about low base salaries against the (management) statements about high total costs per employee. This provides some interesting context about how those numbers can be so different.

1) There's only one union employee with a base salary (graph union vs base pay) over $100k, and only 3 non-computer/telco union jobs with a salary above $90k.

2) There are a few folks with huge overtime (earning up to an additional 1.5x their salary in overtime). A quarter of the union employees are adding over 20% to their salary from overtime. Nearly 7% are adding over 50%. A total of 21 people are making more from OT than base pay. The big overtime users are mostly making between $50k and 65k a year in base salary, with a few making $80k+.

3) As a side-note: The biggest overtime payments go mostly to senior operations foreworkers (usually making $80k+) and train operators (usually making $60-75k). As a percentage of salary, those two titles are some of the leaders, but also joined by system service workers (described on several sites as basically a janitor and making $50-60k).
some NICs or registrars (don't remember exactly) use <user>@<tld> as e-mail. That's valid, so you can get your scenario even on the wild internet :)
I have a small group of friends that work for big companies or consultants. All of them in this group travel at least once a week, usually round-trip (home<-->work-site). The work-sites can change weekly to once every two years.

This group of friends include HP, Oracle (formerly Siebel) and VMWare employees/contractors. All of them that I talk to regularly dislike the travel because of the big company horseshit that goes along with it. I've turned down this work repeatedly because of the travel and the company crap associated with it. Of the people I've talked to about it, only those with unstable or shitty home-lives like the travel a majority of the time.

AFAIK, my friends that do not work for huge companies do not travel much outside of conferences and the like.
This is how managers manage.