skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a book that is nearly 30 years old? SPOILERS: King Kong dies at the end and the Titanic sinks at the end.
The military uses nuclear power outside of weapons, especially in the navy. Subs, aircraft carriers and the like are all nuclear powered, so they have an interest in safer nuclear power as well.
No, they're just the only ones dumb enough to get caught ;)
Whatever happened to the Sublime Text forums?
I've been away from it for a few years and just recently picked up a new project in C++11. I'm loving the improvements.
Then you need to eat better food!
nokia announced the n920 before they release the n900. Who does that?
As has been typical over the last year or so of writing about thorium power in the press, this article glosses over the difference between using thorium in a conventional water-cooled reactor and using thorium in a liquid fuel configuration, which is what lots of thorium advocates want. Many of the benefits (particularly in terms of increased fuel burn, and automatic shutoff in the event of failure) are dependent on the LFTR design, but one could easily read this article and assume they also apply to the MOX design being developed in India; for the most part, they don't. Certainly, you get some of the benefits of thorium fuel in that configuration (more abundant fuel as compared to uranium, for example), but it's an important distinction that needs to be part of the conversation.
I hear that, and I'm torn.

On the one hand, homophobia. I think OSC's got a rather strange and potentially dangerous set of political views.

But ... and this is a big but.

It's Ender's Game!
Company plans to turn Hyperloop dream into hypercool reality
Well, they may publish on their site whatever they want, but if they won't be able to get local authorities' support for their claim, then this is just bluffing. You know, people may get scared and buy a license even if they don't have to, or if they plan to sell derived software products in patent-protected markets like USA. The most convenient way (in multiple aspects) to do so would be to talk with some European subsidiary. The H.265 patents also cover hardware implementations which probably aren't so patent-free, even in Europe.
what if that government who could tap into fiber was not US government? I think any communication outside the confines of corporate buildings should be encrypted.
Making Things happen
In danger of causing a "I think you're defending someone I dislike therefore I must dislike you" response, I think it would be good if you explain to the audience how exactly Orson Scott Card is personally oppressing sexual minorities.

Plus explain how my going to see the movie is not good for the numerous people who have worked on this movie who will get paid that may not share in Card's viewpoints.
That's actually a great analogy. A shower is a bath of convenience, but doesn't replace the bath of luxury.

Soylent is a meal of convenience, but it doesn't replace the meal of luxury...
German Chancellor's BlackBerry Likely Withstood NSA Tapping: Blackberry
Look, I have absolutely no background in security, but I could tell immediately that this was an absolutely horrible idea.

What were you thinking? That's not a loaded question. I literally have no idea what was going through the mind of anyone at your company when it was decided to build this abomination.
We're all software engineers (OK, a lot of us are software engineers). As someone in the computer business, hackers always fascinate me. Admittedly, I'm not a hacker, not in the "break into a secure system and take control of it" sense of the word.

Today I saw this article (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/30/google-rep...). I'm sure you've seen similar ones recently, from large companies and other countries. When you think about companies like Yahoo and Google, you realize that we are talking about some very, very smart people. These are not easy companies to get into. Their interviews are designed to screen out all but the very best, the most elite programmers. And when you are basically the "go to website" for most of the known world, you spend a LOT of time on things like security, and tracking requests, etc. And let's be honest, Google and Yahoo are in the business of tracking other websites - it is their bread and butter. They understand it and know it.

So I ask myself - HOW? How did the government manage to find and acquire programmers so skilled, so elite, that they are even smarter than the Google and Yahoo guys tied together? Moreover, how did they manage to consistently hack them?

To my knowledge, there are two main ways to get into a system. The first is what most people assume - that's a brute force attack. Find a weakness in the system, exploit that weakness, break in and do what you can before pappa bear catches you and kicks you out. Not a very effective approach for long term information gathering, right? And once done, the exploit is usually addressed.

The other way is to get someone "on the inside" to help. Get them hired, and then get them to covertly build a "back door" for them, an easy way in. This too is way easier said than done on so many levels. I don't know about you, but there are several guys on my team, and when security changes are made, there are lots of people who are aware of it, and would likely see it. It would be tough for me to build a back door without someone seeing it being checked in. Or able to find it easily, even just "tripping over it".

But I digress. In order to hack Google, Yahoo, France, Germany, yada yada yada, you'd have to get an inside guy, a super-elite smarter-than-google type of hacker into every one of those places. They'd have to have elite hackers growing on a farm somewhere if nothing else, and then all the connections everywhere to secretly get them hired and into positions of security and power. HOW???

I just don't understand. I seems like a unrealistic task to me. Maybe that's why I'm a run of the mill engineer however... :)
"The page you have tried to access is not responding properly and we can't display it at the moment." - looks like they are embarrassed enough to take it down. Anyone have the original text for me to snigger at? Way-back machine and Google don't seem to have it cached.
I finished my studies in 1993 and I have used internet a lot during the 3 last years (mid 1990 until mid 1993). ncsa mosaic has really arrived in my school only at the beginning of 1994, after I left.

During my studies, the main internet tools were telnet and ftp. There was no firewall and it was really easy to connect to any computer anywhere. It was also really easy to find password (ypcat passwd then dictionary based attacks). My girlfriend was in another school (500km away) and I was using a small utility named xhtalk to monitor when she was connected in order to chat with her. With xarchie, you could search a software or game by its name and it returned an anonymous ftp server.

I played go on internet using igs in 1992. There was something similar for chess.

The main information source was the newsgroups. There was already hyperlink navigation with gopher.

The version of linux on my PC was 0.99 (version of the kernel). I was using it mainly as an X server to access the school computers when the rooms were closed.
How is a personal convenience meal replacement system comparable to a B2B catering service?

ZeroCater doesn't cater individual meals to individuals with the goal of improving meals of convenience, which we have a habit of relying on processed and fast foods for.

It's a tool for businesses to cater popular food to their employees.
Soylent hasn't really invented anything new. Meal replacement shakes have existed for years. It's unclear how Soylent is different.
Those wires are going to cramp some people's style, though.
Well it was not without its faults; the software was generally just buggy and laggy, battery life was quite poor, device was bulky and heavy, the resistive screen was bit iffy at times, there weren't that huge library of notable apps, etc.

And this is coming from someone with fond memories of N900.
Transmitting over HF waves via mic and speaker? That is currently blowing my mind.

Looks like my laptop needs a tinfoil hat more so than myself!
2 degF per minute seems pretty noticeable to me.
I don't like your tone. I think I got all of the subtext.

However, my argument was that if the situations were reversed, the outcome would be exactly the same. Go to a place where there are predominantly women (any dance class or even a Yoga class, feminist conference), and if you and I would try to "talk to them like we talk to men", many of them would assume that we're flirting with them. Or do my observations not concur with yours?
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (which tracks household expenditures), the average "consumer unit" in 2012 spent $6,599/year on food for 2.5 people, of which $3,921 on groceries, and $2,678 on eating out. That works out to to about $7.25/person/day, of which $4.30 groceries and $2.95 eating out.

Source: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm
California woman gets ticket for driving with Google Glass
Imagine if it really is just one individual hacker that got extremely lucky (both with Bitcoin's success & maintaining their secret identity)... What must that person be thinking right now?
The Wikipedia entry seems reasonably accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_scott_card#Views_about_h...
The N900 wasn't all that great as a phone. The OS was buggy and you had to go through hoops to do basic things like send MMS pictures. It wasn't the best phone, but it was an amazing pocket computer at the time. You could load a variety of operating systems and tinker around with it and it had a hardware keyboard.
> Taking into account vote history, you can tumble through old popular posts not similar to anything voted on yet. Maybe push it out to groups of people who haven't seen it to keep the comments and discussions to thrive.

I like this. Also instead of a related link, just show the related things. And maybe stack overflow style user moderation.
Could you provide some links or sources to substantiate your claim that Orson Scott Card is bigoted against sexual minorities?

I'm a fan of the book, and I've been waiting to see this movie, but I confess that I don't know much about the author. Sources would be greatly appreciated.
Any indication of how much one of these might cost?
They are aware that Calcium blocks the absorption of Iron[1], and that it blocks absorption of manganese, magnesium, zinc, fluoride, and phosphorus.[2] The people making Soylent are testing the mix on themselves first, and having blood tests done regularly to make sure they aren't harming themselves in the long run.

[1] http://discourse.soylent.me/t/interaction-of-for-instance-ir...

[2] http://discourse.soylent.me/t/micronutrients-blocking-each-o...
Depends on the context of the situation. In a culture that stigmatizes receiving help this can be quite difficult, but in an open and collaborative setting that values everybody helping one another, I can see this flourishing. The experiment in Switzerland to move towards this will be interesting to watch.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/swiss-in-forefront-with-basic-i...
Many new domains
While I haven't been in the military, I do alot of backpacking. IMPs are quite tasty, and a welcome meal. Can't say I'd rather have a meal replacement shake after being in the wild for a week...
You have to realize the timeframe that N900 was released: 2009. Back then, it was way ahead of most other smartphones (including iPhone), and had multitasking to boot. The resolution was touted as "better than DVD". It had a commandline out of the box, and not some watered down, misplace all the system files version either. It was basically Debian on a phone, with smooth, beautiful graphics, a decent package management system, and tons of possibilities (Rovio ported Angry Birds to it!). Oh, and did I mention it also had Qt, including Python QT, with IDE options (including emacs) on the phone? Sure, the N9 was pretty, but it had no hardware keyboard, and the N950 doesn't count as you still can't easily get one (you had to be an active Maemo developer to get one).
No, they didn't. I don't think Nokia ever announced a "N920".
This reminds me of "Thing" -- a passive bugging device hidden inside a wooden carving of the American Great Seal and given to the American Ambassador to Russia by Russian school children. It operated for years and was discovered only by accident. Beware of Russians bearing gifts (if you are a diplomat).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(listening_device)
Empty as expected :)
Edit:
Nevermind, somebody send a cent. Your address works! ;)
First, not all JS delivery is subject to MITM. Having the ability for JS to use built-in, fast, reliable crypto code is useful in many cases. And it's going to be more reliable, and faster, and just better working in all cases by using what's in the browser VS someone's bleeding-edge library based on some other library based on etc etc.

Second, when we get down to it, if you can't trust your content, you can't trust your content. Do you second guess the crypto on your laptop because you might be subject to evil maid or other physical attacks? No, because there is some inherent trust, just like the people who do online banking and shopping. The integrity of the content is important, but not the only issue, and arguably not the highest priority.

Third, what we use the crypto for is completely subjective. Maybe someone using it doesn't care about the integrity of the instructions delivered; it depends on the case. You can't use one case as a yardstick for all of them.

People obviously want to do crypto from JS. I'm not proposing a solution for all the potential problems therein. But if you're going to do it, do it right and use the native code that already is there.
I use pouchdb with pouchappy.com. Excellent combination.
How could a machine that is not infected, thus not listening to HF packets, get infected? Or are they listening by default?
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I don't see a need to ask very simple questions for a third time, so I think we're done here. Your "guesses" don't interest me, as even the sources you posted contradict what you said. As for the BND, see my very first post in this thread. This is groan inducing.
FYI: http://leaningtech.com/duetto/examples/ is broken on OSX in Chrome and FF for me, it looks like a mobile page is served which makes the code examples unreadable. It looks good in Chrome on Windows7, but also broken in FF on Windows7. Haven't test other platforms.

Wow: and a minute after I typed this, my Windows machine gave me a blue screen, not sure if it's related but it's the first in years ;)
There's definitely truth there. Less rules is always better :)
Meet dog, your new security alert!

"ARF ARF"
-"What is it, doggy? Someone's trying to hack the IRS dbase? Good dog!"
Have you tried Rust? It's not an entirely stable language yet, but I've been absolutely loving it thus far in my few months of close involvement. C++11 and C++14 are vast improvements, but I reckon Rust is still considerably better than them.

As far as Rust for the web is concerned, I've got pretty big ideas which Rust is instrumental in (I've been primarily a Python programmer hitherto, FYI), and so I'm working on the lowest layer at present, in rust-http (https://githib.com/chris-morgan/rust-http). By the time it's entirely ready for production use, I expect someone to have got Rust working with Emscripten too, and then we'll be ready to do even better than Duetto.
Ask HN: Why have a side project?
After running a project about side projects for about 5 months, we've noticed that the reasons people have a 'main project' are often similar and boring. Money, necessity and social pressure.

With side projects, the reasons why people have them seem to be as varied as their projects. It can be a fair bit of effort to grow and maintain a side project, so I'm curious...

Why you do it? What makes your side project tick?
Anonymous collective threatens war with Singapore government
Eye 4n 5s
I still really want a device like this, but married with a Psion. Clamshell, good keyboard, but with the modern trimmings of a high quality, accurate touchscreen and persistent 3G access. The Psion's were amazing, and I think a modern version would make a really, really interesting device.

So this is close, but it needs a movable screen and a more Psion-like keyboard. Maybe I could hack together though.
I am not a "troll".
Sometimes tricking the mind would help, I believe - imagine those times you get nervous and start sweating (tough interview white-board sessions?). I know for me it seems like it just gets worse and worse once it starts and I know the room isn't getting any hotter.
Building great open-source libraries
Did you read the article? USB drives.
GCHQ employs great mathematicians when they're young. It gives them a pleasant working environment. There's probably travel to US to work with American colleagues, and similar travel from US to work with UK colleagues.

There are plenty of genuine adversaries to use in recruitment.

And then, when you're doing the job, you're just cracking crypto or finding exploits, you're not spying on your neighbours.

There's a few fun bits of propaganda - GCHQ HACKS TERRORIST WEBSITE, REPLACES BOMB INSTRUCTIONS WITH CAKE RECIPES - for example.

So, you have these really freakin' smart people working on these interesting problems. They can learn from the rest of the Internet. They just can't share their learning back.

And then you have some managers somewhere reading the law, and coming up with some interesting non-conventional interpretation, and making use of all these interesting exploits and broken crypto systems.

Parliamentary oversight fails for some reason.
"Cookies let advertisers reach digital audiences, but the trail stops at smartphones and tablets, because cookie technology doesn't work well on them."

Is there something here I'm missing? I spend more time browsing the web on my Android phone than my PC and I've never ran into any issues with "cookie-driven" features.
I assume that we're talking about starting companies here? Because once you become larger you have the same benefits as everyone by being employed by your own company. With that in mind I think unemployment benefits or similar is the wrong way of thinking about it. You aren't really unoccupied, you just currently aren't getting paid enough for what you do. This is a lot more similar to being a student. So student benefits is probably a better match. For instance if you could take the student loan from you masters degree "quota".

In general I think low cost of living is the best safety net there is for entrepreneurs.
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In theory, nothing would prevent CryptoLocker from using the same attack vector.
Audio is not the infection mechanism, drives are.
What about shopping for groceries?
Salad and some vegetables lose taste and vitamin after a few days. Even if keep it in the fridge. If you want to eat fresh and healthy food you will have to go shopping more often.

Food spoilage can be an issue too. I can't imagine how how much food has been thrown into the garbage because it looked untasty.
The machines are being initially infected via USB[0]. The HF audio is a means to maintain communication, not a vector of initial infection.

[0] https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13tzhpzvpqyuzv1n23...
This is a great start, but it needs some more patterns. "How/why <noun> <verb> <noun>" may well be the most popular Medium title construction, but I would suggest looking for a few more. Here's a few to start:

"<verb> <noun> and why it matters"

"The day I <verb> <noun>"

"The <adjective> story of my <noun>"
Because they are big.
Well, you can inspect the entirety of the plugin code yourself. While they could of course update it with something bad, there is nothing inherently hidden from you that I'm aware of.
self expression.
I think you may be confusing the term "tech startup" with "web development startup."

This isn't inspired by tech startups, it is a tech startup. It bothers me how people equate technology with the web. I guess the Saturn V was a useless piece of crap because it didn't use the latest web stack.
You made the comment that using this system would be like speaking in a monotone with a blank face and no eye contact. I don't know sign very well, but I was wondering whether a better analogy would like having a conversation over IM? That medium lacks the same non-verbal cues you mentioned.
99.999% of composers write music they don't and can't play themselves. That's why techniques like this are appealing, because the composer can write the performance at the same time. The written music is the performance. There's no obtuse performer screwing up the composer's will in this scenario.

You have a fundamentally broken concept about music.
Mars One to launch first test mission
Percona XtraDB Cluster/Galera with Percona Monitoring Plugins
3 Simple Customer Service Hacks
Hmmm.... and all that waste heat from the Peltier junctions go into /heating/ the room -- making it a little warmer for everyone else.
The only thing you need to tap into a SSL-secured infrastructure is an inside guy who has read access to the private key. Essentially, anyone with root access to the front-end server. That doesn't leave behind any traces.

Same for breaking into the networks (like the NSA did with the Google data center interconnections): you only need to know into which fiber you have to place a tap module into. And a subpoena or whatever against the company providing the fiber service (as most of the fibers are leased to Google by some other infrastructure company).
Well, in this case I can't speak of it being dangerous, but it can be a bad precedent and have unintended consequences.

Let's just go with the notion that Card is expressing his opinion on the matter. He has a right to this opinion, whether you agree with it or even if you consider it right or wrong.

But anytime someone is allowed to shut down an opposing viewpoint it will eventually lead to problems. Once someone has the ability to shut down one opposing viewpoint they disagree with, then they will have the power to shut down any viewpoint they disagree with. Possibly even shutting down a viewpoint they think is of the opposition when it's likely it's not, such as a misunderstanding or being inarticulate.

The difference being, a person actually has to commit actions against another human being to for a reaction need to take place. If someone says he doesn't like gays, fine, let the guy state his outdated rant and get on with your day. The moment the guy actually discriminates or commits an illegal act, then do something.

As for consequences, this movie is an excellent example. If you boycott the movie because of your disagreement with Card, then you are hurting far more people then you will ever hurt Card. Another example, the Chik-Fil-A boycott a while back. That hurt local businesses run by local owners who employ local people far more than the dude at the top that still got paid no matter how much chicken you refused to eat.

If anyone has the generic "you seem to defend what I don't like so I dislike you" reaction to this post, you are practically proving my point.
What Do Zombies, Jungian Archetypes, and IT Have In Common?
Tizen phone a no show as Samsung seeks more devs
Using Firefox 24, I just went to hangouts.google.com and clicked the "Available for your computer" button. "Hangouts won't work in your current browser. You'll need to download Chrome before installing Hangouts."

And a week or so ago somebody invited to a call was told he couldn't join in the version of Firefox he was using, which I'm pretty sure was up to date.

I avoid using it in Firefox; on Linux, it was performing terribly in FF but fine in Chrome.
TogetherJS as a Postmodern Programming Tool
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/07/sci_fi_icon_orson_scott_card... gathers together most of your research for you.

Just as talented programmers can be horrible people, so too can talented authors.