skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be sure, I have chosen my ISPs with this requirement over the years.
Just to be clear, "income diversity" in this case could/should mean income for the city, as in a diverse tax-base. This is definitely a desirable thing for a city, so that when the inevitable tech crash happens, the city's financial base won't collapse.
DNA privacy seems overrated to me. If you really want my DNA, it's easier to just follow me around for half an hour or stalk me at a restaurant, isn't it?

Only the president poops in bags.
I am happy with the fraction of bitcoin that I received for free.. maybe one day it will be worth cashing in, but hopefully not.
The issue is subtle. It has to do with the need for a currency supply to expand to match overall increases in production in absolute terms. I don't understand the matter in any detail, but I trust economists in their general aversion to deflation.
It was around 40 quid when I lived there in 2009. I was just about to get a 6-month pass because I figured it was worth it with my usage, then prices nearly doubled a few days before I came back from my Christmas holidays.

TL;DR: It used to be much cheaper, then they raised the prices.
I personally own 11.2BTC, Bought in at about $140 with $1000 and after a few crafty trades was able to make my money back and more. Its like a game, BTC go up and down for no predictable reason so you just have to buy low and sell high instinctively, and sometimes your wrong... instinctively
Fair enough, but even then, he has nothing to support the idea that the current exodus is any different from the normal inflow-outflow of population that goes on every year in any major city. "People sometimes move out of SF so they can buy a house elsehwere" is considerably less compelling.
Nit: the cold start entropy problem (specifically in the Linux kernel CSPRNG) was published way before Heninger; Zvi Gutterman presented it at Black Hat in 2006. "P's and Q's" got a lot of publicity, but could some of that exposure have been mitigated had earlier reports been acted on? (I seriously have no idea and am just asking).

The term for the "academic analysis" of "recovering from exposure of state" is "forward secrecy", and from what I can tell the whole of the crypto literature that discusses CSPRNGs in any depth seems to be unified on the opinion that forward secrecy is an important property for a CSPRNG to have.

(But that's a reaction to your comment, not your opinion of the paper, because I agree that the attacks here don't seem very practical.)

What do you think of Ferguson's belief that entropy estimators are a flawed design approach for CSPRNGs? FreeBSD uses Yarrow for this, which has two benefits --- first, it loses the silly notion of a "urandom" that is somehow marginally less secure than "random" but is in practice not actually less secure, and second, it comes from a design that has a formal research track record, that people can analyze from the paper and not solely by reversing code.

(I sound snippy but am in fact thrilled that you took the time to comment, and thank you).
(Social) Engineering Serendipity
Acer chromebook. I paid $199 for mine. They just released a new version so the previous should be cheaper now.

With nitrous.io, you will be able to do everything you list. With an installation of chrouton, you can do anything you want, locally and offline. Another tool worth looking at is Caret, a great imitation of Sublime Text that runs as a Chrome app and supports multiple cursors.

I get 3-4 hr battery life, but I have the stock battery. There are others available with 150% the capacity of the original.

Speaking of upgrades, the Acer C7 is the most easily and possibly the only upgradeable chromebook. It supports up to 16GB RAM and any size laptop hard drive. Mine came with a 16GB SSD, of which 2.3GB is available with a full, well used chrouton install. I am thinking of upgrading the RAM as 2GB is getting tight with instances of chrome running under both operating systems. Having a computer with a 1:1 ratio of RAM to hard storage would be kind of strange.

Overall, the keyboard and screen are really nice. The touchpad is what could be expected for $200.
Ask HN: What do you look for in open source projects you want to contribute to?
I am making a web-site to propose GitHub projects to people looking to start contribution to projects. I am still in the beginning stages and I am looking for suggestions on how to improve the results. To do this I would like to know what people look for when they are searching for an open source project to contribute to?

For reference here is the site: http://gilles-leblanc.github.io/dispatcher/
And here is the GitHub page: https://github.com/gilles-leblanc/dispatcher
Developer Console Nyan Cat
Technically you have to tell the car rental company if somebody else is going to be driving. What then happens depends on the company, though at least several rental companies will allow your spouse to also drive the car for no extra fee. Two people handing off every few hours can fairly easily do 24 hours straight safely (provided both are semi-decent at napping in the car). With three people or more, as you said, it becomes trivial.

Even in cases where the rental company charges you for additional drivers, I don't think that charge ever goes over a handful of dollars; not really enough to offset a 24-hour straight run.

From what I can tell, rental companies dislike multiple drivers because multiple drivers increases the risk of incident (I presume because multiple drivers correlates with 24-hour runs).
10/10 would troll/linkbait again.
so like an unregulated market of a single stock?
As a counterpoint to this article, there are the dozens of recruiters that have examined my resume with my extensive embedded systems and database experience and have used their analytical skill to determine that I am a perfect fit for a marketing person for a car dealership. Or, which happens more often than not, that I will leave my current senior position to take a contract position for half the pay and four positions down the ladders at the company at which I already work. Sorry, but not impressed by most.
I don't know about the US, but in Australia post codes (our zip codes) regularly service more than one town (or principality) when you're rural, and if you're even vaguely familiar with Australia we have a lot of rural :)

I've seen this handled quite well by a number of sites - you enter your post code and they'll just drop down a list of all the places it matches. Choose your town/suburb and you're done!

The ridiculous part is that they'll often ask you to enter your state as well, which you can derive from the first digit of the post code :/
The legal risk is minimal; all of the big players in tech run such services after all, and there are tens of thousands of hosting companies that handle photos as well. You should spend an hour or two with an informed lawyer to understand what you need to do to protect yourself through the CDA and DMCA (including registering your agent with the copyright office). If you stay within the confines of what those laws provide, you're not liable for what your users upload. The talk with the lawyer is really advised if you want to feel safe about starting such a venture. "Policing" what's uploaded can actually create liability rather than relieve you of it, for example.
"If I don't use it it must be irrelevant."
I am disputing your fact that the expense scandal was scooped by a US journalist. She made some FOI requests. They were denied. Hardly a scoop as you claim.

It only became a story once the Telegraph got the actual details of the claims.
There is, I have some theories, but so does everyone else I suppose.

The trick with Seattle - and other tech-heavy places - is that the gentrifiers belong to a demographic that is generally not invested in the arts. NYC's gentrification has driven a lot of artists out for certain, but it's also kept many by virtue of the fact that many of its wealthiest are curators and tastemakers of various art media (see: publishing, fashion, music, etc).

The population has a vested interest in seeing the arts stick around.

This isn't a perfect solution, since the "wealthy patron of the arts" demographic is skewed towards certain media and genres, so other artists may yet be left behind. But it's something.

Whereas in a place like Seattle people just don't really give a crap about art. How many Amazonians and Microsofties actually regularly go to art shows? How many have even been on the First Thursday events in any neighborhood?

The first step to successful tech gentrification is for techies to give a shit about the arts. But good luck with that.
Authors as Entrepreneurs: Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder (Part 1)
R is the language of choice for statisticians. That means just about any statistical technique you can imagine is available as a library in R. It is very nice as an interactive environment to explore your data. The fact that it was designed by stats people also leads to some funky language choices. There are actually a number of other graphics packages in addition to ggplot. Good integration with C for speed (it can be slow otherwise on iterative code, and a bit of a memory hog, as it copies objects in memory with reckless abandon.)

It is my second choice language these days after python, and the only one to use when you need a certain library.
Cleverness of Compilers 2
Any responsibilities he might have had as a functioning member of society. We can all go and hide in a caravan when it all becomes too much for us, but I'd hardly say it was something to emulate.
Discussion of part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6271493
Are you saying it is impossible for a secure server to be compromised?
Comcast advertising doesn't doesn't include Comcast contracts.
"There's stuff that I can't share with my own lawyer."

That right there says to me that he can bring that issue up as a violation of his Constitutional rights (Amendment VI---"and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense."). It's insane that he can't talk to his lawyers.
What is "...", here? If it's infinite then we're talking about something abstract and you need to be more precise. If we're talking about something finite then you need the specify the finite-ness.

Note that (1,2,1,2,...,1,2) is not a "distribution," as you seem to be saying. It's a sequence of values drawn from a distribution.

For a fixed length, is it possible for the sequence (1,2,1,2,1,2,...,1,2) to be drawn from a uniformly random distribution that contains 1 and 2 as possible values? Yes. How likely is it? It depends on the number of possible values in the distribution and the length of the sequence. The more values besides 1 and 2 and the longer the sequence, the less likely that sequence will have been drawn from a uniformly random distribution.

In fact, as the length of the sequence increases, the probability of any particular sequence approaches 0 but is always greater than 0.

The crux of your confusion appears to be that you think "distinguishable" means "a sequence that couldn't possibly have been drawn from a particular distribution," which is not the case.
The amount of actual actionable information you can get from a gene map like that is.... a LOT more limited than people such as 23AndMe customers think.

I wouldn't be so sure that 23andMe's business model depends on their customers being uninformed -- for $99, you don't need a vast amount of actionable investment to justify the purchase. Hell, getting your teeth cleaned without insurance can easily cost you more than $100. I wasn't expecting a ton of actionable insight from 23andme, but I don't regret spending the $99.
Good post, but I just want to point out that it hinges on your strategy = his system. The more comments I see, the more confused I am about what his definition of a system is.
NYC traded finance for tourism? Something like 1/3 of the cit is still employed in jobs tied to the financial industry (and it pays over half the wages in Manhattan). I literally can't remember knowing a single person working in tourism when I lived there.
I would think it's rather obvious he's talking about ideas to be employed in your personal life or business, not political ideas.
Divisibility helps to be sure, but there are other issues. Expectation of deflation discourages spending and investment, because the currency I would spend will itself be worth more tomorrow.
I'd hate to use this for anything important - my entire regional area is reported to be 300km (~185 miles) away from its actual location :)

On the other hand I'd be quite happy for sites to calculate shipping based off this since the reported location is the capital city.
I'm pretentious, yet you're teaching me as though I am a second grader, right.

You insinuated that I was "sheilding my precious kids from the homeless" and have stated that I'm pretentious for expecting a functional, clean elevator from a service which already pays a respectable income while threatening strikes if not given more money while doing nothing to fix their current issues.

So, while I obviously did a poor job expressing to you how I find a piss-filled elevator unacceptable - and you're clearly not bothered by human excrement in your public transportation systems - I find calling to the attention of the system, by the only means made available, perfectly reasonable. I also did that holding a standard for cleanliness for a system that wants more money an acceptable thing to expect as a user of the system.
Gamers solve problem in AIDS research that puzzled scientists for years (2011)
niiice. perhaps make some edits at the emacs wiki so more people will know there's an alternative to mmm &/or nxhtml?
Both Manhattan and Paris are more expensive than SF. Not just in rent, but in almost all daily expenses. Adding density does not necessarily solve the problem.
Lol. You do realize that ui space is limited on such a small screen right? Way to over-analyze.
Poll: Do you read the "new" page on HN?
I'm curious to see what percentage of people on HN visit the new page.
Yes, every time I visit.
Yes, most of the time.
Yes, rarely.
* The US also provides safe assets in the form of US Securities.. by going into debt.

* Treasury notes and bills are widely used as collateral and upon maturity they turn into reserve currency cash.

* China, the oil producers run budget and trade surpluses and don't have a history of providing safe assets, like the US, Japan and some EU countries.

* Having a reserve currency causes your currency to appreciate, which isn't good for exporters.

* On the flip side too much spending will cause inflation, which plagues developing countries, but not the developed.

* So they cannot afford to spend as much, without their CB raising interest rates to fend-off inflation, which causes.. currency appreciation and trade deficits.

Which country will provide reserves AND safe assets? And what will China do to back this organization in these circumstances?
Arresting the Unjustly Homeless while they Learn to Code
That's not correct. The Personal Genome Project (PGP) is a Harvard-run study that aims to get 100k people to publicly post their full genome, along with their health and trait information.

The study took some of these public DNA samples, and searched genealogy databases to find likely relatives. The self-reported surnames were thus those of distant relatives, not of the PGP-participants themselves. The researches then combined those likely surnames with information such as zip codes on the PGP public profiles to correctly identify several participants (given that a zip code, gender, and surname is often enough information to uniquely identify a person).

It should be noted that the PGP has a rigorous education and consent process of the risks of publicly posting DNA. So while the study may have surprised some of the participants, it's not something any of them were expecting could never happen.

You can read more info on the study here: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/your-genome-could-...
Hmm, why is it very hard? Wouldn't just connecting the points between them yield acceptable results? I can understand if the points are disparate, but this dataset is pretty much a grid, and it looks like you could easily generate the surface from the points.

What am I missing?
Currently, I am looking for a networking related project, which uses C, and has good design, that can help increase understanding of C sockets and networking.
A couple of observations:

1) It seems that the NSA is intent on cataloging every connection of everyone in the world. The best way for "secure" communications then would be to send encrypted messages to a few thousand random addresses, only one of which is the intended recipient with the private key necessary to decrypt it. Everyone else can write it off as spam.

2) I thought it funny that NSA took the time to write in the slides that they are annoyed by Android's IMAP implementation ("Android implementation in particular uses a lot of bandwidth").

3) Why release redacted versions of stolen documents whose release in any form is a violation of federal law anyway? This is like cleaning up your mess after robbing a bank. Might as well release the whole thing.
Walmart shelves in some stores cleared in EBT glitch
Do you not think that a lower IQ would tend you to have lower earning power?
The NSA's indiscriminate collection of contact information is only possible because irresponsible companies can't be bothered to encrypt their users' data as it passes over the network:

"It is unclear why the NSA collects more than twice as many address books from Yahoo than the other big services combined. One possibility is that Yahoo, unlike other service providers, has left connections to its users unencrypted by default."
Australian company to pioneer commercial courier deliveries by drone
My favourite has been signing up for a couple of games - I think CubeWorld was one and some generic MMO I was trying out was another, where the account creation process handled a '+' email fine but the game client didn't handle it and gave a login error.

The best part of that was that the MMO account didn't allow me to change my email address.
The Chinese are making incendiary comments because the U.S.-centric world order has done well for them. The U.S. Navy patrols the world's seas and so protects global marine trade routes. The U.S. military provides security guarantees which liberate a large chunk of global demand, e.g. Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the EU, for consumption. And the U.S. financial system lubricates the global flow of capital, goods, and services.

I agree that the global economy has put too much faith in the U.S. political and financial system. Diversification would encourage competition as well as increase systemic resilience. The present situation, where a U.S. default literally means the implosion of the current world order, is encouraging previously taboo debate to come out into the open.

A collapse of the U.S. dollar today shakes up a world in which China is ascending. I'd get mad if someone threatened to flip the game board just as I started getting ahead, too.
Plumbing?

BTW. I now realised I misread the parent poster. It's not true that more than 50% Poles have an advanced degree, what I meant was that more than 50% of people with a degree get an advanced degree.
Wow, -1. I know I was being a bit snarky. But the definition of "commercial use" is horribly ambiguous, with basically no broad legally defined meaning.

If viewing ads on Google wasn't a commercial use I could hardly imagine anything else being one... but presumably they don't intend to reject commercial uses that make them money.

The whole idea about rejecting commercial uses is wrong-headed. It presumes that you can draw a bright line between someones activities being commercial or not. Really, just like the no-servers prohibition this is a frivolous field of use restriction which serves to act as an excuse for arbitrary enforcement.
I think the difference here is that YC invests in new kinds of products or services, whereas Adams' bank loans fund existing business models. PG states that passion is a pretty good indicator whether someone else would be interested in your new product, because you yourself want one. On the other hand, passion wouldn't help you make unbiased and calculated business decisions.
No, the currency would not appreciate much more if you keep it down the road, since bitcoin's value curve becomes almost flat when you reach that point, so there's no real value in hoarding your bitcoins when you reach that stage.
This would be great for Pizza!
Can we get Leap Motion support in this? Their API is pretty simple/well made, and it's very well suited to easily rotating 3D stuff.
Pivotal’s Plans for Strata Conference + Hadoop World, Oct 28-29 in NYC
My first time with Oculus demos I got very nauseated. The next day I tried playing HL2, I got a little queasy for sure. The next day it was totally fine. I'm sure that your mileage will vary, but it is entirely possible to feel sick the first couple times you use it and then get used to it over a couple days.
Hackable DVR dual-boots Android and Linux
"They don't link the study, so it is hard to tell."

The study: "Identifying personal genomes by surname inference." Gymrek et al. Science. 2013 Jan 18. (http://www.jhu.edu/pfleming/bioinform/files/gymrek_science_2...)
Unbreakable encryption comes to the U.S.
In this early stage, the point is to support an idea you agree with and help it grow. It can't change "soon enough" without the initial users.
How To Stay Happy As a Founder of a Startup
There have been tons of economies which worked before on the Gold standard, which has been the model for the bitcoin "mining" model. I know nowadays you have lots of Keynesian economists who tell you that going in debt to the death and inflating the money supply is a good thing, but you have to look at how things worked before and why it made sense to have a limited supply currency.
Google searches these sites better than each site's own native search.

This is what I mentioned in Challenging Google’s Search Engine: http://blog.databigbang.com/letters-from-the-future-challeng...

" When each site understands its own data better than Google, its internal search results will surpass Google’s. Google will no doubt continue to provide better global results, but the two-tiered search would decentralize efforts to improve algorithms. It is important to note that this solution does not need to be distributed: sites can share their local indexes and ranking algorithms with the routing search engine."
BGA and QFP at home - a Practical Guide
EXTRA! New WATER company opening throughout the USA but doesn't allow HOT water.

Google is shit. I hope the US government smacks them for this.
Developer/consultants for government contractors.

My coworkers and I move to different project sites on time scales ranging from 1-5 years. We do government software and live on-site in the capitols where we're working. Most developers move from one semi-permanent office to another new client after the project transitions to a maintenance mode.

Experienced devs in particular sub systems might go on 1-3 week trips to other locations to bootstrap or assist on large issues.

Devs are also a large part of our marketing department. A few are regularly tasked with putting together demos for clients and delivering them on-site; others help as needed.

Most devs also have the opportunity to attend career fairs to assist the recruiters. I've personally attended 3 in 4 years. It's such a good opportunity to be the face of your company and have the first round recommendation on hires. Sure the management has the final say but they definitely value our input.

My job is defined by travel, some stops are just longer than others.

If any of this sounds interesting to you, shoot me an email, I'd love to talk with you about it.
So curious, how do they compare against somebody like Algentis? Do they handle all the same services or just insurance?