skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe 2048bit rsa and 256bit ecdsa are of equivalent security though[1]. What do things look like with 3072bit rsa?

[1]: http://wiki.openssl.org/index.php?title=Elliptic_Curve_Crypt...
There's no need to be mean to people doing something you agree with.
Is the paper "Using Bleichenbacher's Solution to the Hidden Number Problem to Attack Nonce Leaks in 384-bit ECDSA"?
People have been lamenting America's decline for my entire 38 years -- and more.

At some point, we have to stop listening to the Chicken Littles.
Twitter IPO pegs valuation at modest $11 billion
This may be the most pompous comment on HN

Who is more pompous? The people thinking they are intrinsically expert at financial analysis posting here or the person that points out how silly they sound?

Seriously, picture a real financial analyst with no computer background reading your Ruby code and drawing all kinds of nonsensical conclusions from it. You'd probably laugh your head off when they read a comment in the code and thought that it was a functional instruction. That's the type of things developers are doing here with their armchair financial analysis.
They should really mention which shell and terminal emulator they are using. Not everyone is using the same "Unix command line".
< 1 year old gaming laptop by Asus. I dual-boot win8 and ubuntu, ubuntu being my primary system for dev work and general use.
He certainly didn't deserve any death threats.

But I wonder how much compensation the students got for being maced -- in contravention of his own department's guidelines for using such measures.
What is the strategy here? Of releasing information about NSA activities with foreign nations? Seems like it is mixing a potentially illegal activity (domestic spying) with their designated job. Doesn't every country try to do this. The NSA personnel could very well have undergone considerable risk to get this sort of thing going on. On the other hand, Joe public sees Snowden fleeing and chilling out in Russia/China and other "despotic" regimes.

Definitely Snowden:0 and NSA:1 in this case.
I haven't checked any of his recent projects, but from his books he's firmly rooted in the symbolic tradition. He adds some interesting wrinkles, sure, but wouldn't he still be diametrically opposed to someone like Rodney Brooks?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00043702919...
(Intelligence Without Representation)
He's not banned, he would show [dead] after his name if he were.
In other news, they still only pay 5% taxes due to offshore accounts.
Adapting UI to iOS 7: The Side Menu
Show HN: CSV with Github statistics
http://pastebin.com/thJdhZwD

When this got posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6531667

I decided to give it a go and set up a cronjob which scraped Github statistics every 30 minutes. They fixed it between 1382454005 and 1382455803. Some rows seem to have missing data (I don't know why), so I am not sure whether this is of use to anyone. You can plot some cool graphs if you remove the rows which do not have all (5) columns.
By this rationale, almost nobody could ever install any software at all. In practice, LinkedIn's software may be a blunt instrument that I would not want to use, but the vast majority of software really is run on faith based on the provider's reputation. (And yes, it does sometimes bite people, even with things that are not LinkedIn Intro.)
September 2004 Gateway laptop. 14.1" screen. Have programmed with this and used for every other purpose for the past 9 years and 2 months.

It has very been counterproductive to use such a device for programming, but I can't say I haven't gotten my $240 worth (since I bought it off my job after I'd used it for 4 years).
Thanks for looking this up.

I thought I was fairly certain that my friend was working for a senator at the time, not a congressman, but I should check with her. And now that I think about it, I actually don't remember whether the final bill passed, but I do remember that it had the support of the relevant senator/congressman.

It also may have been in support of a committee vote, not a final vote. Again, I'd have to ask my friend.
Note the keyword is "first-quarter". Usually for Microsoft the first quarter of the fiscal year is a little below other quarters. But this first quarter is still below what MS typically achieves the other 3 quarters of the year:

- 1st quarter of last year: $16.01 billion

- 2nd quarter of last year: $21.46 billion

- 3rd quarter of last year: $20.49 billion

- 4th quarter of last year: $19.90 billion

- 1st quarter of this year: $18.53 billion (the "record" one)
He sold most of his stock when he left a few years ago, and owns about a tenth of one percent of the company now.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/where-is-biz-st...
Dude eavesdrops on former NSA director Michael Hayden. And Tweets about it.
This comment reminded me that the USSR once built an embassy for the USA in Moscow; it was so full of bugs everywhere that the Americans had to tear it down and start from scratch.
Every set of graphs must have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not in that order?
Sounds like you were lucky.

I took the comment to mean that the most successful founders typically get so fed up with the Byzantine systems at large companies that they leave. And, they leave quickly.

PG is likely just pattern matching. The successful founders that he has seen don't stay long at large companies.
Except for the fact that their (non-GAAP) operating income fell 3% (YOY). Falling profit on rising revenue is a red flag, no?
Worth noting is that they originally were not. http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/mailbox-cost-dropbox-around...
No. LinkedIn spent considerable effort building something that nobody wants and nobody will opt into.
Getting away with what? Can you tell me what they should have done to offer the same end-user functionality in a way that would not seem "sleazy" to you?
That's one reason. Another reason is to provide liquidity to shareholders.
did you actually think that ddg runs its own crawlers, indexing, ranking, etc.?
Because your invitation came from a coworker who used, you guessed it, your work email.
There’s a link to one of the related files from your link, but folks might also find the rest of my article about this from 2006 interesting:

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

Also cf.:

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/selectors.html

https://github.com/jrus/cocoa-text-system/tree/master/KeyBin...
The worst thing you could ever do is plainly state that a thing is simply too complicated to be worth explaining.

After working in finance-related IT for 16 years, I signed up for the Level 1 CFA exam to take it in December of 2009. I've been in IT for 20 years but I thought, "How hard could this be?" I found out. I ended up studying for over 350 hours and was thankfully one of the 33% of people that passed the test when I took it. 67% of people that took the test failed it.

So I ask you - how much of those 350 hours of studying do you think I can squeeze in a Hacker News comment? Do you think you could teach a financial analyst how to analyze Java code in a Hacker News comment? Would you take the time to even try?
> the heat maps we show to our drivers to show them where to position themselves in the city

how does this not benefit the passenger?
The private sector has plenty of places to put PhD level people with technical skills, it's just in roles that in which their expertise tends to be directed toward more risk-averse ventures and their skills tend to be underutilized. The number of physics PhDs I see in low-level software development roles sometimes scares me.
Who comes to Hacker School?
> This is really just a case of well-branded spearphishing.

Spearphishing is distinguished from phishing more generally by having very narrow, specific target selection.

If we are going to look for a analogies to techniques of catching fish, this is more weir phishing than spearphishing.
Who said it was "a year"? I thought I read "the age of the Linux desktop". That would imply much longer than a year, which would IMO be a lot more accurate.

Regardless of what it actually is, my point is that I don't believe we will see the kind of overwhelmingly quick adoption of Ubuntu or other flavors of Linux until somebody makes a laptop or desktop computer that runs Ubuntu, does everything a Mac/Windows machine can do (and I mean EVERYTHING...the only reason I'm not running Linux all the time is because the best DAWs and audio plug-ins are for Mac or Windows), and somehow also markets it to be a cool computer to have. That's the only way they're going to beat Apple at this, by being better.

But that's not going to happen. What will happen, I believe, is that over time, more and more people will gravitate to using Linux as they tire of the limited choice offered by Apple, Google and Microsoft. Hopefully, so many will that major software vendors will begin porting their stuff to Linux, at which time it will become more and more obvious for people to be using it. With Steam for Linux and SteamOS based on Linux, we've already seen some trickles of this in action. I think we'll see more gamers gravitate toward Linux when Steam for Linux gets more popular and if that succeeds, other industries will follow suit.
I don't work at Uber, but I do work at a competitor of theirs. We have mixed feelings on tracking location data. There are customer advantages:

1. We could monitor drivers to make sure they do not take egregiously long routes.

2. We could use the information to drive supply to the right place (for example, by telling drivers, "Yes, we understand that hails are not as common in AREA, but our data indicates that when they do exist, they tend to be for rides 200% the length of the average ride).

3. And there are all kinds of ways we could tune our service in response to highly detailed data about each ride. ("Avoid this road -- it's a little shorter, but it's massively slower!", or "Driver X really knows part of city Y, let's preferentially hail him there"), though in my experience those kinds of things are hard to act on.

But you're right, it is creepy, and we don't want to be in the business of monitoring the movements of our passengers (or even our drivers, outside of in specific ways directly to do with providing a better service). We particularly do not want to be in the position of being a good target to subpoena about the movements of a customer.

I think it's possible to thread this needle, though there's a fair amount of effort involved. Anonymizing the data, in some cases aggregating it, and/or making it less precise over time (cutting sig digits off it) can preserve passenger and driver privacy while still giving you most or all of the benefits of the data collection.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430893

"LinkedIn Founder says 'all of these privacy concerns tend to be old people issues.'"

The bit about privacy starts at the 13 minute mark.
So make a plugin for your email client which raises a little Intro flag when you receive an email from an Intro user.
Who needs nuance?

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
No telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA
It may be one of the largest motivating factors in changing NSA practices, however. Pissed partners can lead to loss of trade, and the NSA suddenly becomes a campaign issue for the next round.
I agree with your point, but the solution isn't to instead model the underlying biological nuts and bolts (assuming this is what you mean by "underlying behavior of human brains"). Even if those approaches approximated human behavior (which they don't), it wouldn't be all that informative. Just as creating "artificial" intelligence by growing a brain in a petri dish wouldn't be informative either. (Well, it wouldn't be informative as to what the brain's job description is, although we could presumably learn plenty from of other things from the exercise).

The better solution is to come up with creative experiments (with human experiments) that can arbitrate between competing implementations. With modern technologies like virtual reality, you can create almost any counterfactual situation and that to decide between theories that make the same predictions "in the real world".
Yes and no. Yes, it was obvious that the presenters didn't have that "natural burning feel" of Jobs. But that was obvious since Jobs is gone.

No, the product changes are still the right ones:

I have iPad 3, but I've bought iPad 2 for my parents. Whenever I go to them and use it I am impressed by the slightly lighter and thinner feel of it.

Now the iPad Air is significantly lighter and thinner than iPad 2. If you have any other iPad, wait to try the iPad Air, then tell me if you still think it's not a big improvement.

Ditto for iPad mini. If you have the present one, wait until you can try the new, then tell me it's not significant. I'm quite certain I'm going to by it, just to take it with me to the places for which I consider "full" iPad too big. Now it's retina, I'm sure it's the best device of that size. Is it too little? I'm considering best as "best that money can buy" not "best when I want to give as little money as I can." And if you're not using Apple tablets then this won't change your mind: others make cheaper stuff and it's still so.
This is the top comment on the Reddit thread:

"They went after high ranking military officers. They went after members of congress. The Senate and the House - especially on the intelligence committees, and on the armed services committees and judicial. But they went after other ones too. They went after lawyers and law firms. Heaps of lawyers and law firms. They went after judges. One of the judges is now sitting on the supreme court that I had his wiretap information in my hand. Two are former FISA court judges. They went after state department officials. They went after people in the executive service that were part of the White House - their own people! They went after anti-war groups. They went after US companies that do international business around the world. They went after US banking firms and financial firms that do international business. They went after NGOs like the red cross and people like that that go overseas and do humanitarian work. They went after a few anti-war civil rights groups...

Now here's the big one. I haven't given you any names. This was in summer 2004. One of the papers that I held in my hand was to wiretap a bunch of numbers associated with a 40-something year old wanna-be Senator from Illinois. You wouldn't happen to know where that guy lives right now, would you? It's a big White House in Washington DC. That's who they went after. And that's the President of the United States now. And I could give you names of a bunch of different people they went after that I saw! The names and the phone numbers of congress. Not only the names but it looked like staff people too, and their staff. And not only their Washington office but back home in their congressional offices that they have in their home state offices and stuff like that. This thing is incredible what NSA has done. They've basically turned themselves - in my opinion - into a rogue agency that has J Edgar Hoover capabilities on a monstrous scale on steroids."

--former nsa officer Russ Tice...

June 20th interview on Boiling Frogs... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPyxeqcCjkc (full 1hr+ radio interview)

or watch 11 minute RT interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6m1XbWOfVk
An incredible start up story
First of all, I too think this is an interesting idea that I've never heard/considered before. I too find restraint easy but action difficult.

I agree, too, with your last paragraph.

But aside from that, even if individuals we do not find good strategies for better managing our weaknesses.... can we find better strategies for collaborating with others with complementary strengths and weaknesses? Of the people replying to you and stating a side, it looks like roughly a 50/50 split.

Is it possible for strong-restraint people to lend restraint to weak-restraint people? Is it possible for strong-initiative people to lend initiative to weak-initiative people?
I think we need a bit of context here. US is the hegemon.

Therefore it's not reasonable to apply same expectations of how it acts as we do pleasant little countries like Norway or Netherlands (who are probably only independent because US defended them against Germans & Soviets).
Real-time payments. No interchange. An idea is now reality.
A lot of this feels like measuring the results of education with standardized tests.

Funny you should say this. Finland (right at the top) does not use rote learning or standardized tests in its education system.
A self-contained fire, caused by hitting a large object, which only started spreading once emergency services broke through the battery casing. Exactly how is this a 'hardware mishap'?
Wow, that is an amazing amount of feedback. I'll second the OSS vs. Open-source thing, but I have to confess, I didn't even see anything about open-source until I searched OSS on the pricing page. I wonder how many people have missed this.
GEB's purpose wasn't to provide a comprehensive understanding of Godel's proofs. Nor was it trying to explain AI. It was a very personal book of thinking about thinking, basically. If you aren't a native English speaker then the book might have been less effective.

I own the Nagel and Newman book and probably read it every two years or so.

I also own the FARG book which summarises the work of the Fluid Analogies group. I don't think these papers are as interesting or exhilarating as GEB so I have to disagree with you there.
On the "is not monitoring and will not monitor"... If they took the time to deny present and future monitoring, the obvious question then becomes why haven't they denied past/recent past monitoring? Oh that's right, because they can't in fact deny it as they WERE monitoring.
It's more subtle than that, since the "Intro" iOS profile simply sets up a proxy.

This would take about three clicks from an end-user, and at no point do they knowingly disclose their passwords...
WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
Steve Gibson did a pretty good job explaining this for normal folk (like me) on his podcast IMO.

Episode #374
https://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
Yeah, even if you're totally appalled by the PRISM NSA scandal, it's hard to get upset when the NSA spies on foreign leaders - which is it's job.

It's really strange when you think about it that even (especially?) friendly countries spy on each other, but there it is. And the funny thing is that if the Germans, or anyone, get upset about it we can just point to their foreign intelligence service and be like, "well, what are those guys doing?" and then they walk sheepishly away.
Well I didn't know. Thought if you were allies you'd have a bit of respect for each other but guess I've been to naive.
Neither Amazon nor Groupon were profitable at IPO, ostensibly because they were maximizing growth. I guess you just have to decide which you think Twitter is more like.
What's new in WordPress 3.7, "Basie"
Yeah one would hope these guys had some kind of ethical compass but history of Big Data (Google, FB, ad networks and their ilk) shows otherwise. Everyone in "social" just wants their Fuck You Money and "fuck users" because they're the product. Apathy and subversion of the web from the big players or anyone with a Facebook Jr biz is why the surveillance state exists.

"Silicon" Valley is working on spy tools and innovative ways to get more people to click ads.
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I'm really excited to check out this Nunkucks project. I ended up evaluating a bunch of JS Jinja-style libraries and also ended up choosing SWIG.

Unfortunately, SWIG does not run well in the browser. The code is converted with Browserify, and the browser tests only cover the simplest use cases of the library. Thinks broke down horribly as soon as you used a tag ({% extends %}, {% include %}) that needs to load a template.

Is the browser a first-class citizen with Nunjucks? I'd like a library that supports 100% of the features (including compiling templates) in the browser.
I don't understand the bulk of comments being about this not being important. Or... well yeah, I understand the perspective that any intelligence agency should be collecting intelligence, so this shouldn't be a surprise per se. But this certainly levels out the playing field in that now the world knows at which lengths the NSA has been keeping tabs on people, and at least the majority of world leaders (and a lot of more "insignificant" people) will start using encrypted communications and networks like Tor. Which they should've been doing from the start. So, in this light, I think this is an important Snowden revelation.
Show HN: Having fun with my portfolio.
Medical advice from doctors for Bitcoin
wow, beautiful device... anyone know which is it?
That has nothing to do with "a string's internal representation". That is just how a range loop is defined/implemented.
I hate the fact that, after a while, AdBlock automatically checks "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" checkbox.

And "some" means several hundred supporters.
The author's literacy, numeracy and problem-solving ability seem questionable. Decline means descent: going from a higher level to a lower level, of which the article demonstrates exactly none.
Tapbots Launches Tweetbot 3 with iOS 7 Redesign
I think you're joking, but we both know this isn't the first time they've done that.
Well, I have T61 guts and an SSD in mine. It isn't so far behind as you might expect.

I've used a 15" Retina Macbook Pro. The screen is not better. Sure, it's higher density and brighter, but the viewing angles are not better. Subjectively, I'd say the color reproduction is worse (I used them next to each other). Reflections, glare and fingerprints are significantly worse on the MBP.
These are close, close allies though. We aren't talking about North Korea. We are talking about countries who have deep diplomatic and military ties.

The reason why you wouldn't do something like this, is because there was a damn good chance that it would leak out, mortally wounding your relationship with these people.

Secondly, the utility of this particular SIGINT program is highly questionable. What is the ROI on something like this? Germany is not plotting against the United States. What scenario would they use info for?
I can take a car to a repair shop of my choice, and replace the breaks. This is not illegal, nor does it invalidate some kind of "warranty". If the break is found to cause safety risk, it is not the car manufacturer that is going to get into trouble.

Why would there be a special warranty or safety concern replacing the software that control the break, but no warranty or safety concern replacing the physical breaks with custom ones?