skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point. The interesting there here is the raw level of information you need to have to even hope to do something new. From a period, say WWII up to when Shannon was just doing his seminal work, you could think maybe a little on a fairly broad area, and maybe come up with something new. Now, as with many areas of academic thinking, you have to learn so much just to get to a point where you can advance a really small piece of state of the art just a little bit.

I think a lot of real math and academic work follows this pattern, and it is the reason one has a right to be skeptical, or even dismissive, of someone doing something like this if they were to present it as a serious work. "Here, try to break this". It is great for someone to learn the true scope of their ignorance, but at the same time, it is also so unlikely you have done even the tiniest novel thing that it is almost always OK to dismiss it out of hand.

Cryptography is really just an applied branch of math/information theory. Things that work for advancing the state of art for math are generally the same tools that work for advancing the state of art for cryptography. In the raw, pure and abstract sense. In the practical world, where you have to have real bits on real physical things, the attacks are myriad and the innovators in that space often need minimal training in cryptography (relative to someone doing the theoretical work).
Dutch Police arrested TorRAT Malware Gang for stealing over Million Dollar
It's amazing to see scientists experimenting on themselves!

I've always been impressed by what Barry Marshall did.

For years it was common knowledge that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy food, and excess acid. A "bland diet" was the prescribed palliative care for ulcers. There was no cure. And ulcers could - and often did - lead to stomach cancer.

Dr. Marshall thought that that the bacterium H. pylori might be the cause. But the idea that bacteria could thrive in the acidic environment of the stomach was thought to be ridiculous.

So he tested the theory by drinking a solution of H. pylori and giving himself ulcers.

He had a biopsy taken on himself to prove it was the bacteria, and then cured himself with a course of antibiotics - the same way ulcers are cured today.

Ulcers are not a chronic disease any more, and stomach cancer has become rare.

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar/07-dr-drank-broth-gave-...
He means first VC-backed bitcoin startup ;P
The European system follows a strictly defined progression, LMD:

Licence: 3 years after high school, equivalent to a US BSc.

Master: +2 years on top of the previous, equivalent to a US MSc.

Doctorate: +3 years on top of the previous, equivalent to a US PhD.

Some PhDs can take a bit more time - it's not uncommon for a student to take an extra 6 months or so (or to start a few months after the official school year starts, because of funding issues). However, I've never heard of someone's PhD taking 4 or 5 years or more (although I'm sure it may happen in some edge cases).

The reason why Licence is 3 years compared to the US's 4 is that it's very focused: often, students don't pick which classes they take until the end of their curriculum (where you can pick classes for a specialty relevant to your discipline; for example, AI or Graphics for CS). There are a few general ed classes (for example macro economics, English as a second language, etc.), but definitely less than the US. Similarly, you don't get too pick. I've seen US students get a BSc. in Computer Science and having taken theater and anthropology classes in their first year; this does not happen in Europe (and you do notice that in the US, some very focused students do get their BSc. in 3 years).

This also means that the average euro student with a licence is typically stronger in her field than the average US student with a BSc.; however, the downside is that you can't change majors halfway or anything. If you do 1.5 years of CS and then realize you want to go do something else, it's pretty much back to square one.

The reason why a PhD is shorter is also due to the fact that it is common for the 2nd year of the Master (M2) to be split in two branches- the standard one, and M2R (for Master 2 Research) for students who know they want to go into research. M2Rs typically include a 6 months internship in a lab, where you start working on topics that will be related to your PhD (you can still go work after an M2R and not do a PhD, but it's uncommon).

Source: I've been through the French, British, and US university systems :)
You will often prefer to use sync for one-time loads or for debugging.
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Sounds terrible, and I'm glad that Facebook tries to stop people from doing it. I'll admit to being mildly curious about who might be unfriending me, but I'll gladly stay ignorant on that to avoid having other people notice that I unfriended them and potentially have to deal with questions about why I unfriended them from people I don't care about in the first place. I already barely post anything on facebook at least partly because I don't feel like considering how all of the people who might see it will react to it, and even less feel like spending time on segregating my friends list into groups with special permissions and filtering everything I do and everyone I add based on those groups.
"Public funding for science is frozen or being cut, private R&D labs are shuttering their doors, and companies are increasingly concerned with quarterly results at the expense of long term research."

It also has a lot to do with the Bayh-Dole Act and the privatization of research. For-profit research centers are one of the fastest growing areas of the economy. While more public funding would certainly help, the real issue is that under Reagan science became privatized. If there were less research but if it were still high quality, we'd be much better off.
Learning to handle rejection on both sides is a life skill. Are people that bad at handling this now?
I'm curious what you plan to do after finishing your PhD? Have you considered doing/working at a startup? I assume post-doc is off the table since you are not interested in the tenure track grind.
We don't need anecdotes. Anyone can search for iOS 7 on Twitter and see reactions in real time. The majority of iPhone users said they loved it when it became available.

https://twitter.com/search?q=iOS%207&src=typd&f=realtime
pixlr has 1 very big issue - it requires flash player and
1 smaller issue - no grid
This has to be top 10 in the sites I have revisited over the years and occasionally still reference. An excellent collection!
Whoops. Thanks for pointing out. Edited original post.
Python - Why is this so overwhelming?
Printer jammed? Try this 60-second brute force hack
If you have FIOS, enabling WPA2 breaks their router, and tech support won't help, claiming that WEP is "just as secure as a wired connection"
I really don't get what you're trying to say here. Lou Reed more than most in pop music would understand that likability is not the highest aspiration of a musician. In fact, I think he would really disagree with your idea of the purpose of music. He made a lot of music that people still struggle to comprehend.

Where you think he's trying to rationalize feeling positive about the album, I think he's simply saying that there were some aspects of the album he didn't completely connect with, while other aspects absolutely floored him. On the whole, I'd say that's still a pretty stunning endorsement.
I disagree, and so do most/all retro gamers nowadays. The golden standard back then were the standard res RGB monitors that arcade games used. Consumer TVs in America at best had composite input and paled terribly in comparison. But we all dreamed of our games looking as crisp as they do in the arcade. Even the NES had an arcade counterpart where you could experience NES games in crisp, beautiful RGB.

Standard res RGB monitors are not as crisp as PC monitors. But they are still quite nice and really do let the individual pixels shine through.

Most retro gamers now typically hook up their consoles via SCART to a CRT that accepts pure RGB, typically a Sony PVM. I've got all my consoles and my arcade boards running on a PVM and can really easily see the pixels making up the art.

here's a few examples I grabbed off the web: http://imgur.com/a/GXHyf They look even better in person.

Yeah most emulators provide filters that give you scan lines and all that jazz (none of them look quite right). And of course an RGB monitor does not look at all like an old game running in a modern emulator with no filters. But I would still definitely say you can see and appreciate each individual pixel.
The emergence of Crowdsourcing specialists
That's all just myth-building, and he's done a brilliant job of it. Take this very message thread for instance, on a technology forum thread about Lou Reed of all things, the conversation is dominated by Kanye West.
I have no idea. There was a lot of outcry, much like this, borne out of a desire to deceive, when FB started showing people when you've seen their messages on chat.

I'm serious. Every single criticism about why that feature (and this one too, by the looks of it) is terrible is rooted in the desire to mislead someone. Whether that be about friend status or whether you read their messages.
NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch to YouTube
I wish the opp cost was made more clear cut in some way. Maybe a rite of passage where you take a picture of a house and burn it or something. These days when an undergrad can pull 6 figures, a PhD is very, very costly.
What if you've built an amazing, revolutionary product but no one knows about it? You make it seem like the concept of advertising at it's core is inherently bad; it isn't.
I couldn't find any details on the qualifications of the person giving feedback.
Now now. HR is the externalized evil of the corporate system. Inefficient laws and the decisions of executives are the substance behind the mask.
App is free. You get a fountain pen and an eraser. If you want a marker, pencil, or whatever, it is $1.99. And if you want the notebook?

Not sure what they are going for here....
You could just surf the web and note the ones you see, but, oh.
Talking to european grad students, it appears they have lives during grad school. People talk about it like a job with fixed hours. The average systems PhD student at a top US or Canadian school lives in the lab.
Cory Doctorow wrote a piece for The Guardian[1] theorizing a sort of "dead-man's switch" for this that might allow you to circumvent a gag order. Basically, you regularly post a signed message saying "we have not yet been compromised" -- and then when you are, you just STOP posting that.

As Doctorow mentions in his article, the basic idea is not new -- it originated in 2004 with Jessamyn West, a librarian trying to fight back against the FBI trying to look at patron's reading habits, and the accompanying gag order. In that case, it was:

> a sign on the wall of her library reading "THE FBI HAS NOT BEEN HERE (watch very closely for the removal of this sign)."

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/09/nsa-sabota...
The author reflects how much we've all bought into the utter bullshit that advertising makes things free. There is no free lunch, and there is no free web. In truth ads actually make things much more expensive, as I'll explain below. In addition most ads are fundamentally manipulative if not dishonest, and thereby undermine democracy and rational free markets.

Advertising simply shifts the cost of the "fee lunch" to the price of the advertised products. In other words we still end up paying. It may even shift costs regressively, toward lower incomes and the less educated, in which case the poor are subsidizing the better off.

BUT IT'S WORSE...

We end up paying a lot more than if we just paid for our content and services straight up. Not only are you still paying for the costs of the "free website", you are paying for all that advertising overhead, the costs of advertising technology and infrastructure (huge, btw), the agency and creative costs (Don Draper and company have to pay for the hookers and scotch somehow, not to mention what’s-his-name who basically just lounges in his office barefoot thinking Japanese), and big marketing departments that often outnumber the people who actually write or make things.

You are also paying the opportunity cost of inferior product, because that’s what happens when websites have to design to please advertisers over pleasing us, the users. Dalton Caldwell makes this point comparing Sourceforge to Github: http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal.

Our identities and privacy are bought and sold to the highest bidders. So we foot the bill for those bids AND we pay the cost of lost privacy. A double whammy! It's personalization? Bullshit. Personalization means optimizing something for me, not optimizing for the advertiser. Again, who's the real customer?

IT GETS EVEN WORSE...

Think of the social costs of advertising. The web is infested with misinformation and manipulation. Beside the lying ads themselves, relying on a revenue stream entirely dependent on how many ads are seen severely affects the moral choices of those who decide what gets produced and how its presented. What are the costs of a misinformed and variously manipulated citizenry, of distortions to the free-market?

Knowledge and discourse are the lifeblood of both democracy, free markets, progress. The web, from the little scammy websites to the big brand ones that so many blindly trust, has a huge influence on who we vote for, what we buy, and most importantly, what we believe.
Their businesses are profitable, they just aren't booking profits. Odds are eventually they'll simply use free cash to buy back shares instead of reinvesting it. Which is why Amazon attracts quite a few very sophisticated long-term investors, and why they command a relatively high valuation.
The mesh is about 3 feet out.

B Frames to be of any use require 6 frames at 33ms each, that is 200ms, a quarter of a second, but on play back you need all of the frames in the set from i frame to i frame to get make the reference frames work, this is typically 1-3 seconds.

-Brandon Wirtz
SMPTE Voting Committee Member for the ratification of H.264 and VC-1 standards.
It is not clear what metrics are used to measure progress over time.
Owner of warez site sells user data to anti-piracy company
cleantechnica.com is even less original than a chain of ice cream shops called "Frozen Rock Milkery"

(For those that don't get the reference, here's the original chain that I'd be ripping off: http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/)
FISA may face a legal test in an upcoming criminal case.
Windows 8 Adoption Slows Ahead Of Windows 8.1
I have a problem with this too. People being paid more in most positions I've been aware of play what seems a confidence lottery. Its not that they're better skilled, they're just better negotiators.

What should differentiate a group of developers with the same job title of say Agile Developer, where there is no junior-mid-senior? A set base pay with bonuses based on performance, or the wild west where 50 yr old Bob who is stuck in 80s programming practices makes more than 24 yr old Jack makes considerably less yet has to be corrected much less?

It's disheartening as hell to realize the person who brings almost no value makes x-5k where x is your salary, with no bonus structure. Developer culture is stupid hard to convince to non developers. In our world, a meritocracy is highly favored. Based on talent not negotiating skills from talentless hacks.
I'm not ignoring them, I'm specifically speaking to that population who advocate a diet low in saturated fat as a preventative measure for heart disease when there is NO causal evidence linking the two.

Also, I said nothing about them wanting to cause disease, I said they wanted to prescribe a pill to fix it, glossing over the known issues with the pill (statins in this case) in populations with no elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. I don't have any hard evidence of this other than the fact that in 2005, 29.7 million people in America purchased statins.

Why are you on the fence? What evidence have you seen that causes you doubt that saturated fats are unrelated to heart disease?

http://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st205/s...
A screen in a window only messes up auto focus when the size of the screen is greater than the size of a single pixel.
Manuel Blum's page on research[1] is also relevant. He was Mor's advisor.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html
6-inch curved LG G Flex officially announced
I may just be paranoid, but I'm convinced that when wearable passive cameras (glass) are culturally acceptable the first thing Google et al will be pushing for is an option to "pop in", and analyze your environment.

Imagine you could see through the eyes of your customer interacting with your brand or a competitor's. Imagine being able to see how your customers shop, what they're eating today, and more importantly a view of their network from their eyes.

It doesn't have to be that creepy, merely an agreement to let Google collect information while you shop based on GPS data seems innocent enough.

Advertising will get more insidious, someone convince me I'm wrong please (I'm being sincere, I don't want to hate technology).
Yes.

People's relationship with music is an odd one - what you listen to you is meant to say something about who you are. You can't listen to classical because then you're an elitist snob. You can't like Justin Bieber because then you're a teenage girl. You can't like Kanye West because then you're an egomaniacal asshole. You can't like rap music in general because then you condone drugs, sex, objectification of women, electronic music and (gasp!) street slang. It's such a weird phenomenon, and it doesn't happen nearly to the same degree in other mediums. I can watch a horror movie without people thinking I'm a serial killer. I can watch a comedy without worrying that people will think I'm an idiot. I can read basically any novel on any subject without changing people's opinion of me, beyond "oh, he reads". But music is different. When I was in high school you could clearly identify social groups by what music they listened to, which also matched their fashion, and I think the majority of people don't move beyond that headspace ever.
RTM is a massive outlier who isn't representative of the distribution you're describing.
I'm not 100% sure. For now I'm concentrating on finishing a serious PhD (my plan is not to quit academia with a pity-PhD consisting of no serious publications). I'm working on a couple projects leading up to publication, and that doesn't leave much time for strategic planning :)

But for future plans I would very much like to work on some large scale projects building out large scale infrastructure. I don't have much experience writing production code for large scale distributed systems --- my research has, by necessity, concentrated on prototypes and theoretical innovations. I would be very excited to join a group that rolls out cutting edge systems, such as what Matt Welsh, or Jeff Dean, or Eric Brewer are doing at Google. I'm not sure a consumer focused startup would offer such an opportunity (although I'm willing to be convinced).
Buffer encrypts access tokens after spammer hack
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> so I think it's safe to assume they're relatively harmless. (at least in the short term.)

Cigarrettes are basically harmless in the short term as well!

None the less, and contaminants from crappy manifacturers not-withstanding, I'd be surprised if e-cig's turn out to be harmful (in a meaningful way).
Actually windows does these checks automatically and replaces system files with signs of corruption/bad cert. You can force this check by using System File Checker tool in cmd:
sfc /scannow
> horrifying dreams every night

lol please tell me you did not sleep with it, because you are certainly not supposed to!
I love/hate Time Machine and would love to switch to something better. The problem is that to be secure, you need both versioned backups and redundant storage of the backup. Time Machine has trouble with network volumes (this doesn't stop me from using my DroboFS but I have to struggle with it regularly). It also doesn't have a cloud backend. Best option to have both is Crashplan, but the UI sucks. So if there's anyone else like me, we're regularly in the market for considering options that offers all of redundancy, version history, and a solid UI.
> I mean this isn't /r/politics, is it?

This isn't reason.com, is it?

> The line that science would not happen absent government funding is so demonstrably false that to even make such a claim is tantamount to shouting to the world that you are a first-class idiot.

The private sector doesn't advance science. Also: you are stupid for claiming so. Maybe even first-class stupid.

See where that exchange gets us? Now cite your data on the majority of scientific advances being privately funded, since you claim to be able to demonstrate it. In particular, I'm interested in basic-science advances, of the kind that CERN and Stephen Hawking and etc. produce. Who in the private sector is producing those?
The semiconductor material used by Bardain, Brattain, and Shockley for their Nobel Prize work at Bell Labs was developed by researchers at Purdue University under a grant funded by the National Defense Research Council. Their developments were hardly independent of publicly funded research.
Science (management) has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity
It could be nice if Rubygems could show which gems that depends on a specific gem. I have a feeling that quite a lot depends on FFI.

I know that we depend on FFI, because we use selenium-webdriver, which depends on childprocess, which depends on FFI.
Matt Welsh, Eric Brewer, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Mike Dahlin all have PhDs and lead teams that write serious production code at Google. Ion Stoica and Hui Zhang have started technically heavy networking startups. Joe Hellerstein has a new startup (I'm not familiar with the details).

You don't hear much about them because they aren't sexy consumer facing startups of the type that HN is obsessed about. They typically focus on unglamorous but technically challenging problems of the kind that require deep expertise.
> What can go wrong by changing the listening port of sshd?

Read the article.
More likely caused the sensor to send invalid values for pixels.

Still More likely the jostle caused data loss for a while.

The green squares don't look to be 16 pixels tall. Hard to tell with the footage, but DC's are typically 16x16 or 8x8

This looks to be a CCD issue not a compression issue especially since the artifacts don't propagate to the next frame, nor cause variations in the sharpness of things in the next frame which would be common if new image data had to be created in whole rather than as a differential from the perfectly noiseless, "broken" frame before.