skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps next we will hear from a bank robber that he will take very good care of our money.
The scientific community is working on the replacement:

Known as the Avogadro Project, the plan is to bring together enough atoms of one substance – silicon – to make a kilo.

Attention has focused on silicon because:

- its characteristics are very well understood

- a single crystal of the right size can be grown

- its atomic structure is extremely uniform

- its widespread use in the computer industry means it can be obtained with relative ease at high purity and resonable cost.

A spherical shape was chosen because a sphere has no edges that might get damaged and only one dimension has to be measured in order to calculate its volume.

---

http://www.csiro.au/content/ps35k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y
I love tricke down economics and trickle down economics culture in general.
I like the idea, but I hope the article would address my question whether or not there are mentors available for office hours.

You can certainly learn by trials and errors, but to be honest you'd learn a lot more if there are professionals to help you.

Second issue is programming 15 hours a day seems a lot. I can't even stare at my screen for more than 7-8 hours a day. That's a lot of work...

I do like the idea, and I think traditional curriculum should adopt part of this. I advocate my department to do "student seminar" as elective, but the department always refuses by saying "your employers don't see the value and have no way to justify your ability by taking this elective."

I like professors to give students more freedom to build things and show to class their progress.
There is no honour in being a warrior. This concept is a vestige of our savage past. At best one could argue that it's a sometimes necessary function.

The problem is that in order to maintain the capability and infrastructure to deploy that function, and in order to offer some solace to the people we ask to carry out that function, we have to maintain the fiction that it's all very honourable.

Which leads to young people in some of the richest, most comfortable countries of the world actually volunteering to join the military, believing that they are doing a great service.

It's a despicable sham, and a horrible waste.
One of the coolest and most unexpected things I've seen on HN! Excited to see what you guys do in the future - a two seater at a similar price-point would be real game changer.
Agreed - I wouldn't be surprised if this is the creator's grand strategy though. Sell the first premium version at a high price to help cover the initial costs, then build more affordable versions once the majority of R&D has been completed. Very much like Tesla's strategy.
The concept is to build a game in the one hour that "doesn't exist" during the daylight saving time change.

This seems pretty fun. I like Game Jams, so I might be doing this. Definitely need to get an engine squared away before hand, because there isn't much you can do with one hour unless you already have a proven framework.
I am sorry i still don't understand what your start-up does after reading "I hope to help you be awesome at settling complex arguments". Are you providing legal services or something?
> This blog post is intended to provide more information and address inaccurate assertions

I don't like this part of the full statement. It doesn't specifically address what assertions are incorrect and which are correct. Systems are and never will be 100% secure. No matter how much technology you throw at something, there is always going to be a balance between accessibility and security.

I do believe LinkedIn has a done a massive amount of due diligence (much more so than many other organizations would care to do) which is great and I'm glad they took the time to respond. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is an underlying assumption from the general populace that if a security expert says something is secure than this means this never can get hacked. Which I would respond - not true.
Why did you join the Navy in the first place? Or did you come to realize your moral conflict only after you were already in?
As everyone said, you have created a stream cipher. But I feel that I have to add that your idea (OTP with small key) is usually implemented this way: the small key is a counter used an input to some PRNG specifically designed for this (you should try AES in CTR mode), which you increment every time.

This produces a sequence which is always the same for each session, but because the keyspace is so large (2^128 with AES-128), this is acceptable because these PRNGs are actually cryptographically secure hash functions, which makes them very hard to reverse. Therefore, the only efficient way to crack your session is to either catch the key (your counter) or to brute force it by using every value of the counter and test whether this leads to a successful decryption. Not only are there 2^n possibilities, but every possibility is extremely expensive to test and then you have to accurately check whether the decrypted values are coherent (this is difficult with packets with a fixed header and nearly impossible with raw binary data).

The big disadvantage is having to store your small key until decryption.
Psy-op bitches, Yer fucked.

God says...
experts ohh_thank_you the thats_laughable hype sess_me play
downer no_way_dude well_I_never roses_are_red ba_ha I_just_might
study persistence Shhh wanna_bet that's_all_folks gosh
jobs employer you_should_be_so_lucky you_think_I'm_joking
services hit that's_for_me_to_know happy FBI don't_count_on_it
Ramsay I'm_not_dead_yet God_is_not_mocked You_da_man Angel
Angel hey_thats_right I_didn't_do_it reverse_engineer
Percival job services spunky hey_thats_right guilty That's_gonna_leave_a_mark
don't_count_on_it fortitude yikes qed employee do_not_disturb
BRB
By safe he probably means "enterprisy." OOP is pretty much a joke when your realize every "pattern" ends up being the singleton with a dozen levels of inheritance by the time a web app development team gets through with it. Every other pattern will fail by the times the marketing and executives get hold of it. It should be called the Fox & Tramp bowl of Singleton pattern. But I digress as I step on the enterprisy toes of team developers.
DrumLog.com (http://www.drumlog.com) - Analytics for your practice sessions. It's a web app for drummers to track what and how much they are practicing.

It's Cool because:

* Creates analytics from an offline activity

* Built with Backbone.js, Node.js (Express.js), hosted on Heroku, and uses Parse to store data. (all great free services)

* Is being actively used by over 100 drummers who have logged over 3200 practice sessions in about 3 months.
Yes, that is a good thing. The bad part is that they aren't using the other 99.99..% of their wealth, essentially taking everyone else's labor and ending the cycle of trade that would otherwise help keep an economy going.

And that's not to mention broader macroeconomic issues which are more worthy of essays than HN comments.
Unsalted passwords.
This reminded me of Miso Media (http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/miso-media-raises-another-2...), though at a glance I see that they're pretty different.

I appreciate that your app is web-based, personally. And to have done it all in canvas is crazy impressive-- especially considering the slickness of the interface. Kudos!
I think it's good to consider whether a certain outlook or ideology comes along with being a "professional". Here are some aspects of this outlook that I have notices:

* "Engaging with the system and trying to improve it is always the best strategy". The other point of view is that if you have an adversarial relationship with an institution, it might serve your interests, or the greater good, to refuse to cooperate or participate until certain demands are met.

* "Bad actions can usually be explained by good intentions gone wrong". I think this incorrect viewpoint also relates the the first point, in that people feel that it is better to correct institutions than to fight against people. It is especially disturbing to me when things that should be crimes, are downgraded to institutional failures.

That said, (and without having read the book), I think that people such as the author suffer from other, equally serious biases. In particular, thinking "critically" usually means introducing a bias in our thinking to counteract some alleged bias we already suffer from. But if we are wrong about the initial bias, then our attempt to correct the bias will also be wrong.
Robot Audio (http://robotaudio.com) - An online DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). The app itself is not ready yet, but you can play with the synthesis engine on the signup page.

It's cool because:

* You can now make something like Ableton Live or Garage Band directly in the browser.

* You will have all of you work and assets available from any computer and won't need to worry about license keys.

* It will be much easier to share and collaborate with others.

* It will be affordable (between $5 - $20/mo) as opposed to $600 - $1200 for Ableton Live.
That sounds like a very nice and thought-through architecture/design.

What's your current status / how far away are you from a more or less complete beta (e.g. in regards to the minecraft client) (if you don't mind me asking)?
MacBook Pro 13-inch and 15-inch "harder than ever to repair"
Useful Minimum of MeteorJS Resources to Start
Perhaps better way is to promote telecommuting. My emissions on the way from bedroom to office room are zero if do not fart.
>"We isolated Intro in a separate network segment and implemented a tight security perimeter across trust boundaries."

>"We performed hardening of the externally and internally-facing services and reduced exposure to third-party monitoring services and tracking."

What do those points even mean? They're written like the marketing department wrote them and fluffed them to the max. "Performed hardening"....really? It just sounds like they don't know what they're talking about. "Oh yeah we totally isolated and secured the perimeter, the app is good now". If my dad heard that he'd think "Oh like in those war movies where they secure the perimeter? Awesome!". A lot of the other points they listed are like this too, I just picked out the first couple.
I'd assume that these would end up being re-usable in many circumstances, though certainly not all.

It sounds like they still need to figure out the durability issue -- but at that point it could be re-usable in some cases I'd think (does seem like they'd figure out durability first though).
A friend and I are developing a new fast, space-efficient (read: probabilistic) key-value store. We're using it for some computational biology applications.

It's cool because:
* It scales to really large data sets: We store ~10 billion keys in memory on a single, not-too-ridiculous machine, and the design supports sharding trivially
* It's fast: we have a lot of optimization still, but can do ~1M lookups/sec (O(1) lookups)
* It's a data structure! (Which as non-formal-CS people we find fun)

Would be very interested to hear other applications that people would find the above attributes useful for!
My thoughts exactly. Why doesn't what he was saying in the video apply to these offerings (which I can buy right now btw)
http://www.sitbetter.com/view/chair/egc-ergo-saddle-stool/er...

http://www.sitbetter.com/view/chair/sto-ball-chair/the-origi...
I have a two bedroom flat in San Gervasi (a rather posh area) for 700 euros a month, so yeah, the rent in Barcelona is rather cheap.
It is a shitty school, launched by one of the biggest IT groups in France (Illiad, which owns mainly Online - hosting provider and Free - ISP/mobile carrier). Students are under stress during their whole scholarship. I think one attending this could work for Illiad at most (and maybe elsewhere, by using their experience).

Although it is free, which is interesting for people with low resources.
I'd feel better if LinkedIn would be more transparent about the data they have collected on my network and how they make predictions, and would allow me to delete such information if I wish, because I find some of their "People you may know" recommendations to be decidedly creepy.

Even assuming that they are technically able to do this securely, it's the opacity about how they will use the data and how long they'll keep it that bothers me.
I looked at Airmail, but it doesn't support S/MIME yet.
For 90332, I suspect not many :)
If they reasonably believe durability is possible (though expensive or otherwise deferrable), it makes perfect sense to build a fragile but feature-impressive initial version, to demonstrate the benefits, then harden later.

Look at their team:

http://bounceimaging.com/?page_id=260

Do you really think they've missed something simple like the right prototyping priorities for selling into their target markets?
Do you honestly think you can bully me into unquestioning acceptance of your premises? Has that ever worked with any HN user?

Also, your summary of the thread so far is very inaccurate.
Before you get too angry, consider that this experience is common of soldiers in war, not many of whom would after combat use terms like warrior.

Indeed, most of the people I hear glorifying war and the military in general have never seen combat. Most of the people I know who have seen combat, don't like to talk about it at all.
karthikm I don't see it?
The problem is, this isn't innovation. NASD did the same thing better fourteen years ago. Disruption could still occur if somebody would evolve those ideas in a way that makes it suit users' needs better, but AFAICT Seagate is doing the exact opposite. It's difference for the sake of difference, "disrupting" only their own business.
"- I want the same language in my controllers, in my db code AND in my templates"

I read that as "let me mix them together like a PHP spaghetti app". The original poster may not have meant that, but after 13 years of writing PHP, the common complaint I still hear from newbies is "but structuring my code/using a framework has such a steep learning curve!". I'd rather like separation of concern enforced at the language level :)

And no, I don't have a clue how that'd work ;)
This idea (a throwable ball with imaging and other sensors) and several prototypes have appeared on HN before, the first one around 2 years ago. This exact product has reached the HN front page in the beginning of 2013 [1].

I find it strange that none of the prototypes have actually managed to reach a production stage, given that the potential market - military, LE, emergency responders is (supposedly) there. Maybe the price point doesn't make much sense, given the usual (low) prices for fixed-focus camera modules - there is no need for very high resolution here, and the balls better be semi-disposable.

There are a few other designs (and patents associated with the concept) - [2], [3] and [4].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4757971

[2] http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/01/21/surveillance-...

[3] http://www.serveball.com/

[4] http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera (and HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109899)
They have since disabled the Facebook app.
Just look at those comments. The readers of the NYTs place the blame for poverty squarely on two groups: The rich, and Republicans. The first are guilty of "not sharing"--which implies they (the readers) believe in a zero-sum economy. The latter are guilty for not wanting higher taxes, ie, for not forcing the rich to share. So, a single fallacy rules their world view.
Where do you live (and what did you get, and what does it cost), if I may ask?
However, what I WOULD love to see is a previous copy on the right of the screen and a text editor on the left.

We built a Word AddIn that lets you to do side-by-side diffs in Word (but you can't edit in this view yet). Would be interested in your thoughts.

https://draftable.com/word
I don't know if I'd write off Scalia, he surprised me with Kyllo vs. U.S. when he wrote the 5-4 opinion that use of infrared camera to peer into a home without a warrant constituted an unreasonable search barred by the Fourth Amendment, citing Katz vs. United States, a case involving remote eavesdropping that defined a "subjective expectation of privacy."
Silk Road Accused's '$28m Stash' Found By FBI
RiverTrail: Parallel JavaScript
Sounds interestering, any more info about this
Im not sure how responsible the US citizens are, when they are being intentionally misinformed about the war.

> asking if a child had just run directly into the path of their shot. “And he says, ‘Per the review, it’s a dog.’ ”

Its disgusting how casualties are being counted. Rather than own it up, and admit that both civilians and kids die in a war, they redefine children as dogs, and count all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants.
>It is always easier to press a button that look a man in the eyes and shoot him.

I was a Soldier, I've never had to shoot anyone, but I strongly agree with this. I am 95% sure that I could shoot someone if my life depended on it, but I'm 1000% sure that I would have absolutely no problems launching a missile from a drone, while I'm safely located 1000s of miles away. Hell, video-games are one of the few things I've ever been talented at.

Now, just to clarify, I would have problems if it meant that innocent people would get caught in the blast, I was purely focused on the issue of killing someone that meant to do me or any other innocent person harm.

I also agree that its far too easy for a commander/politician to order a drone strike. Often, when the military decides not to take a particular action, its because the commander doesn't want to be responsible for sending a Soldier off to die. With drone strikes, the possibility of this happening is eliminated.

While I feel that our drone program is out of control, I also feel that it could be reigned in and used in a way that's both productive and ethical. We need to place a priority on preserving innocent life, even if it is difficult. If Soldiers are on the ground, in a fire-fight, its arguable that saving their lives may involve the loss of innocent lives. That's a sad reality of war. However, when the aforementioned Soldiers are sitting in an air-conditioned building, there is no ethical dilemma that could possibly justify collateral damage. We need to reign in the drone strike program, and reserve its use for the rare opportunities where we can take out a high value target without killing innocent people.
Nonsense. War is about coercion. I want you to do this. You don't want to do it. So I hurt you until you change your mind.

If you care enough about an issue, you aren't going to let it be decided by a formalized game ... well, if you lose the formalized game. You are going to keep fighting at least until the cost outweighs the benefit.
I read your essay, and I am not discounting the deleterious effects of inflation on the domestic economy. In fact the growth in the M0 money supply should have us expecting a 3x inflation in the near future:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m...

So yes, this is very worrying. As Milton Friedman said, "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" and argued that it always follows an increase in the mouney supply.

What I am saying is that there are ways to mitigate the transfer of wealth to the rich, which are in place. If you look at inflation as a flat tax on everyone, it can be offset by sufficiently progressive taxation and welfare assistance to the poor (I am a fan of Friedman's negative tax scheme or Basic Income schemes). Overall you are right, income inequality grows during inflations. But at least we can mitigate this with policy.

On the other hand, I am saying that the structural changes are systemic and this is far worse for the population as we have very limited means to "bring manufacturing jobs back" as both presidential candidates promised in this last election. They ain't coming back - not to humans, anyway. The real big shift we are facing is how quickly we can grow our safety nets and redistribution schemes like Basic Income or Negative Tax so that our unemployed class can continue being consumers at some rate which we as a society think they "should afford to be" just by virtue of being human.
Spook Century
The take away from the story is not to open .JAR files and to setup all family members computers up such that they can't install any software or accept any email attachments, because quite probably, your family members will be stupid and open .JAR files.
Are there any link voting sites on the public web that have tried this?

I'd love it if YouTube comments worked like this. Why don't they?
Hi everyone, I'm the guy building Penflip. Apologies for the load of emails and rough edges - Penflip actually still in alpha, and is not quite ready for the primetime.
"When the LinkedIn Security team was presented with the core design of Intro, we made sure we built the most secure implementation we believed possible."

I think that is the problem. The security team should have said: "Stop. This is an insanely stupid idea. No matter how we implement it, let's just not do this."

Instead they tried to make the best of it.

I feel sorry for those folks. I bet in their heart they all know it is an utterly stupidly designed product that should never have seen the light of day.
They're not stuffing that money under their mattresses. The vast majority of this money is invested in other businesses in one way or another, whether directly in stocks and shares or indirectly through a bank.
he's in a bubble of information and influences that corrupts his thoughts to overlook the the very concerns that alarm the crowd here at HN

I'm pretty sure Obama is better informed, has a more thorough background in constitutional law, and has spent significantly more time thinking about these issues than just about anyone in the crowd here on HN.
I'm not trying to bully anyone. What's your better summary?
Fighting fear by lighting Lagos's streets
I imagine that in practice two or more would be fired in a single chase, just to be safe. Even so, pretty cheap.
> Cory also postdates LinkedIn's security drama; he was brought in after the credential leak

Thanks, that was the thing I was most curious about: has LinkedIn really started taking security seriously and does it have any idea what it's doing? Because for those of us not following the ins and outs closely, going from "we don't salt our passwords" to "we want all of your email to pass through us" didn't just sound ill-advised; it sounded crazy.
My client's use case: we have multiple hospitals that need to share confidential information, for example a patient intake survey that is essentially a typical web form. We need somewhere to store that data.

Building the AWS site to do this took upwards of 1000 person-hours to figuring out HIPAA-compliance issues. This will continue to be an ongoing cost for us, because HIPAA is an ongoing law and it changes sometimes. It takes substantial auditing time and money.

TrueVault would save us all that.
Kieth Flett? That ol'sonuvabitch! How is he? Say hi to his mother for me.
Many of these billionaires are undeserved and unearned billionaires because of the carried interest tax dodge. That needs to go ASAP. Over five years into a Democrat presidency and all these tax issues (low taxes on dividends, double irish corp tax dodge, etc) that protect the uber wealthy persist.

It's not about taxing the wealthy, it's about fairness. $85K earned by a teacher, $150K earned by a developer, $20M earned by Brad Pitt and $200M earned by Steve Schwarzman should all be taxed the same way.

And the same goes for corp earnings. F Apple! Pay your taxes.

Top 10 Private Equity Tax Loopholes
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/the-top-10-private-eq...
made an account after years of lurking, to say how awesome this is.