skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting point of view, but I think you're way off. You make it sound like Sharon's strategy was to find a willing partner to negotiate with to find a "grand bargain". He wasn't. His strategy was to destroy any peace process. Pulling out of Gaza demonstrates that. It was done to completely destroy any need to negotiate with the Palestinians, as described by Dov Weisglass, Ariel Sharon's senior advisor in an interview with Ha'aretz. The following is quoted from here: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/top-pm-aide-gaza-p...:

"The disengagement is actually formaldehyde," he said. "It supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so there will not be a political process with the Palestinians."

Asked why the disengagement plan had been hatched, Weisglass replied: "Because in the fall of 2003 we understood that everything was stuck. And although by the way the Americans read the situation, the blame fell on the Palestinians, not on us, Arik [Sharon] grasped that this state of affairs could not last, that they wouldn't leave us alone, wouldn't get off our case. Time was not on our side. There was international erosion, internal erosion. Domestically, in the meantime, everything was collapsing. The economy was stagnant, and the Geneva Initiative had gained broad support. And then we were hit with the letters of officers and letters of pilots and letters of commandos [refusing to serve in the territories]. These were not weird kids with green ponytails and a ring in their nose with a strong odor of grass. These were people like Spector's group [Yiftah Spector, a renowned Air Force pilot who signed the pilot's letter]. Really our finest young people."

Weisglass does not deny that the main achievement of the Gaza plan is the freezing of the peace process in a "legitimate manner."

"That is exactly what happened," he said. "You know, the term `peace process' is a bundle of concepts and commitments. The peace process is the establishment of a Palestinian state with all the security risks that entails. The peace process is the evacuation of settlements, it's the return of refugees, it's the partition of Jerusalem. And all that has now been frozen.... what I effectively agreed to with the Americans was that part of the settlements would not be dealt with at all, and the rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns. That is the significance of what we did."

* edit: changed wasn't to was
From the diff:

-	newkey = xmalloc(sizeof(*newkey));
+	newkey = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*newkey));

The only change is that the allocated memory is zeroed, right? (Just wondering if I'm missing something.)
A good book that actually discusses hacking and not just a few exploits.
Presumably he pays with a credit card and does a chargeback two or three months after payment, at which point physical rewards have already been shipped. Most payment processors will hold a reserve for a set amount of time for this exact reason.
Well people cry cry crying about their bonds that can't be paid our a source of a market inefficiency. They are a sign that people over invested in utilities instead of putting that money to a more productive use.
A new side channel attack
Not to the Business. I am required to have links in my signature so at the very least I will always have one hyperlink on every email I send.
I see it as they had removed the "continued mutual goodwill" from the equation, and were offering nothing additionally. (If my current employer asks me to sign something without any additional incentive, I'm not going to say no without inspecting it, since our continued mutual goodwill is important to me.)

That kinds of puts them into the same category as someone who comes up to you on the street and asks you to sign something. You don't owe them anything - there's no goodwill - there's no upside. They get "basic politeness" but not co-operation.

Sure, it might not cost you anything to sign, but you'd at least need to spend the effort (or money for a lawyer) to ensure that.
People who commented until now don't know how blessed is this measure. If you're a programmer, you probably don't get lots of malware in your computer, but if you ever had to use the same Windows PC as your uncle, mother or brother-in-law, even for a short time, you would know how bad it is to see huge amounts of malware and changed home pages, new tab pages, default search engines, everything messed up inside Chrome.

I don't know how these people get all these malwares, but is a fact that they get them installed. And if you don't have a better solution, Google at least has a temporary potentially good one.
Young homo sapiens males have a natural instinct for war, which can be expressed or not depending on circumstances. Going to war is the historical high risk + high reward option: you might be killed, but if you survive, you have a good shot at becoming richer, more powerful, and having offspring (both by becoming a desirable husband/son-in-law, and through the pervasive rapes in which victors indulged after a won battle). Founding a startup is a modern incarnation of that instinct, appealing mostly to the same young males demographic, albeit skewed toward those with very favored socio-economical backgrounds.

So, the less hope people have to thrive the "regular" safe way, e.g. because of durable economical crisis and loss of upward social mobility, the more likely they are to respond well to jingoism.

As a side-note, polygyny and jingoism are strongly correlated. Indeed for each man with several spouses, there are unwilling bachelors. They're willing to take the high-risk road and fight battles to become patriarchs; as a bonus, war casualties increase the female/male ratio.

I recommend reading The Red Queen if you're interested by all aspects of mating strategies and risk acceptance, not limited to human beings nor even whole organisms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Queen:_Sex_and_the_Evol...).
fsniper:

Thanks for your remarks. They are really much appreciated. Below are some answers I hope can help:

Extensive list of supported features: http://brebisproject.org/projects/brebis/wiki/Extensive_list...

How does Brebis work:

Brebis in the first run creates a list of files inside the archives with parameters about these files. In the second run, Brebis verifies the files thanks to the list of files it previously generated.

A full example about how to use Brebis is available at http://carlchenet.com/2013/10/17/brebis-0-7-the-fully-automa...

Compatibility with mainstream backup solutions:

At this time I could not perform a full study of the compatibilty of Brebis with the mainstream backup solutions. Given the fact Brebis supports classic archive formats (tar, gzip, bzip2, lzma, zip), Brebis is compatible with tools using archives in this format. It could not be "plugged" easily though at this time with mainstream backup solutions.

Automated tape devices:
At this time I didn't test Brebis with a tape device.
Just, please, don't blame it on the Tea Party. We need them badly - at least until they finish fracturing the Republican Party. As for the Democrats - all in good time, my friends, all in good time.
It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois_Counter_Mode and IIRC it was added to OpenSSL in the 1.0.1 release.

Don't let my hazy recollection be a substitute for checking your platform though :) (see some good recipes in this thread)
Does this load in only when they are visible in the viewable area, or do they fade in everywhere?
There must be ground rules for the game of capitalism. Market's are awesome at balancing things like price/quality/features. Most consumers can do that, and if they can't, well... caveat emptor.

But if the quality is so bad that people die, or are maimed, poisoned, or otherwise injured, we have different rules. Consumers aren't good at this, they aren't experts, they don't have the right information. So they turn to regulation (or certification - a voluntary form of regulation). These ethical factors are, of course, a trade-off with the others. Sweatshops and child labor are immoral, we will not tolerate that.

You bring up the interesting point of transition, though. If we stop buying these masks, those people lose their opportunities, and we run the risk that they'll just be produced in some other sweatshop somewhere. As such I am a big fan of transitionary programs with auditing, where if bad conditions are found, the owners are incentivized to make gradual improvements or risk losing customers.
Option 1: tmpfs or another memory backed fs

Option 2: Quick C program, but two gotchas: make sure you touch every page after allocating (and keep touching it, otherwise they will be swapped out)

(Also turning off or limiting swap space may be helpful)
http://www.openbsd.org/errata53.html

The page you linked to is not updated as often or as thoroughly. Errata ('Patches' link on the main page) is the page you want. Sorry for the confusion.
You have a decent resume (content-wise) but it can be vastly improved in terms of structure/presentation. I suggest you Google around for some good looking resumes.

Add English to your list of fluent languages. Normally, you don't need to since you are at a US school. In your case, due to your extensive International experience, people might incorrectly assume you don't speak English. I was hesitant to make this suggestion since it is not politically correct. But I'd rather help you than risk not being PC.

Put your technical skills at the very front. The first project you have talks about some theoretical work. Minimize the technical jargon. I work in research but even I thought you were "one of those math people". I realized you had programming chops when I saw Python and that you implemented a board game in Java. Those should be up front and highlighted.

If you can become a committer on a famous open source project that would really help. This is a lot of work so don't worry if you can't do this.

Basic HTML and PHP can be learned in a weekend. Frankly, I assume every tech person knows these things at a basic level or can learn them fast.

Maybe talk about SQL/Database knowledge. Learn if you don't have those skills. Mention git or some other source code control system.

Best of luck! Keep at it ... you are a contender!
I have a couple of questions, and I'm unfamiliar with the Javascript frameworks so I struggle a bit to find the answers in the source:

Are the globes drawn with perspective?

And can it suffer from gimbal lock?
As long as you don't evaluate the satirical message by the qualities of the film, that's ok.
How Twitter Can Make Some Money - Three Fresh Business Models in 140 Characters
At least in my case this is the answer
This basic income crowdfunding campaign reached its goal in less than 48 hours
If it is not the job of the capital markets to facilitate economic growth then what are they there for?
I sometimes swear apple is on track to be the new internet explorer but on Ink's page it says ios7 is supported, could you expand?
The goal has been set at 15,000 EUR and the duration of the campaign at only 14 days. There are still 12 days left in this campaign and the donations keep coming in.
> Information asymmetry rules the world around you.

True. Good point. But is information asymmetry becoming larger or smaller? I would argue that it becomes smaller, but I have nothing to prove it.

An anecdotal example out of my memory, is Kofi Annan saying in an interview, that he started to use Google, more and more instead of having to ask his assistants. Another example are journalists, able to uncover secret CIA locations with Google. Or a single whistleblower, Edward Snowden, able to leak a good part of the NSA's secret operations with just a USB stick.
Sure, the NSA has more knowledge than ever. But the average Internet user, too, has unprecedented access to personal information of strangers. Just knowing your real name will likely allow me to find your location, employment, a picture of you and much more. So has the information asymmetry between us and the NSA grown or shrunk?
"This vulnerability is mitigated by the difficulty of
pre-loading the heap with a useful callback address and by
any platform address-space layout randomisation applied to
sshd and the shared libraries it depends upon."

Right. But in order for RoP explotation (say chain some libc function calls) to work you'd still have to manipulate the stack arguments in some fancy way, also it's not really sure how trivial is "pre-loading the heap" since it's a post-authentication stage bug as the advisory mentions. Of course these are just speculation, digging into the source code might change perspective :)
I think this is important to have emphasized. Especially because the opinion of business has a very loud voice in today's market-worshiping gov't. Even though there are technological remedies can be used by the most tech savvy to regain some ground, practically speaking any changes that protect the not-savvy have to be statutory. Companies will side with the consumers and howl like a dog when something more powerful than either of them surveils them, but spin on a dime and exploit their position of power over consumers.

I also agree that you could make a convincing case that aside from the legality and broad social unacceptability of the collection, the way data is currently used by the government is much much more in line with the surveilled's interests than many of the businesses gobbling up consumer data. Corporate surveillance isn't inherently any better than government surveillance. Pretending otherwise makes us enablers.
It's a common misconception, but QE does not change the ability of private banks to make loans in any way. If you think I am wrong about this, please explain the mechanism by which you think QE increases the ability of private banks to make loans.

In fact, there are almost no serious arguments for why QE should stimulate the economy in any way, except for a small straw, which is that QE might reduce long-term interest rates, and that this drop of long-term interest might induce more people to take out bank loans and increase their spending in this way.

Also, yes, Quantitative Easing might lead to inflation, but this is exactly what people hope for in the first place :-)

And no, Quantitative Easing will not lead to uncontrollable inflation. If loan-driven inflation gets too high, the central bank can simply decide to raise interest rates and stop QE again.
jQuery lazy load does the same thing and has been around for long.

http://jquery.eisbehr.de/lazy/index.php?c=effects
and alert saying "There are images in the mail that have been blocked for your safety." and an option "Unblock Content"
Part of the complexity with this particular example is that Spitzer was known for going after prostitution. So, in addition to the issue of legality, he was also a hypocrite. Hypocracy doesn't always need to be a condemnation, but in his case it was a hypocracy which put others in jail.
GCHQ data snooping has "destroyed trust in British tech"
Agreed. I love those fluff words like "breakthrough". It sounds like "Blitzkrieg" to me. It is amazing how much clueless re-reporters can dilute the information density and usefulness of the initial abstract.
Personally I use Xmonad for my desktop (all servers are headless, of course -- running screen but tmux looks interesting). It's a no-nonsense tiling WM for managing all your xterm windows. I also have dmenu installed, launching apps directly from the WM is more convenient than you'd think.

I guess the two of you refer to not having X installed at all, but while it does provide some distractions, I can't see myself getting shit done (i.e. procrastinate on hnews) without a real browser.
Since it's based around quaternions it shouldn't suffer from gimbal lock.

As for perspective, what do you mean by that? Aren't globes always in perspective?
Android Is Gaming’s Future, And The One OS To Rule Them All, Says Nvidia CEO
Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance.

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
Let me introduce you to the legendary Tokyo Schönfinkel Appreciation Club:

http://www.cynic.net/tsac.html
The source of the recording has been exposed: it was a bartender, Scott Prouty, employed for that function.

See http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/03/scott-prouty-47-...
Nope. That's all.

The newkey struct in turn contains a bunch of OpenSSL context structures, and one of these includes a cleanup callback pointer for the MAC (message authentication code) in use. For most ciphers this was being initialised later but AES-GCM provides message integrity without the need for an external MAC and in this case the MAC context was being left uninitialised.

When the newkeys struct was later being cleaned up as part of a rekeying operation, the cleanup callback was called. It's address was whatever happened to be on the heap when this allocation occurred.

It certainly appears exploitable using standard techniques, though it may be complicated somewhat by OpenSSH's privilege separation architecture.
honestly? virt-manager.py has some bug I've been looking at for a while.

if I leave it on over the weekend hooked up to a few of my vm hosts, then I've got about 9gb ram used.
It's used in TLS 1.2, so I'd assume any distros using OpenSSL 1.0.1 (which added TLS 1.2 support) would have it enabled.
Mission to Mars 3D experiment
Cloud, Amazon: Understanding the new ELB metrics in CloudWatch
We already have that: http://www.scholarpedia.org
Ask HN: Anyone read The Circle yet?
I'm just starting Book II and I'm wondering if anyone in the community has read or is reading this book. If so, what do think?

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-brief-q-a-with-dave-eggers-about-his-new-novel-the-circle
NSA Big Graph Experiment
Great list. Can you elaborate on "Drop-down for expiration is a disaster and a huge regression from the status quo."? Are you saying the norm is to have it typed?
You can draw orthogonally too. I've messed around with globes and had problems spinning them, hence my curiosity.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-40/?action=preview&uid...
Fun fact: Encik Farhan literally translates to Mr. Farhan. It's a pseudonym.
Workshop Chrome Experiments
Yes. I believe the bug rises from some code like:

if (newkey->callback != NULL) {
newkey->callback()
}

If newkey structure was not zeroed, then the callback would have had some contents from previous use and the NULL check would have passed and some unintended memory position would be called.
The ideology of individual liberty and the free market have turned the United States into the most powerful and prosperous nation the world has ever seen. The ideology of "government knows best" has produced the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, the gulags of Soviet Russia, the wholesale slaughter of tens of millions in Mao Zedong's Red China and the pinnacle of oppression: North Korea.

I'll let the results speak for themselves.
Thank you for the insightful talk, Mike.
‘TWTRQ’ stock up as much as 1,800% as investors confuse Tweeter for Twitter
The Most Embarrassing Private Jet Flight Of All Time
Great memories of Slackware, my first Linux. Slackware CD plus the HOWTO's and I was off. Doubt I'd have become a programmer without that fateful day, circa '94, that my friend freaked me out by showing me a Unix on his home PC and loaning me his Slack cd.
You have to look at the utility bill of a commercial building. Demand charges are right there in the bill. Even if you cross preset limit once during the year, you will be pushed to a higher slab, and your base rates will go up.

/source: I work in the Industry.
That's one of the main problems with the efficient market hypothesis, actually.

The EMH is false for values of "efficient" that are interesting, and the values of "efficient" for which it might be true are boring and useless in the grander scheme of things.

A lot of needless bad blood enters discussions because everybody interprets the word "efficient" as they please.
Nest’s Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
Man of Steal : Entrepreneurship (English subtitles)
"Where Clojure is about simplicity, Scala seems to be about complexity."

I have the same opinion. I would really like to try a haskell on the jvm but I'd prefer if it'd be strict instead of lazy.
Or you could have a fleet of electric cars for the business that plug back in and charge up in time to run the electric load during peak demand.
Kickstarter aren't really losing any money from this. Their policy is to pass on all the costs of chargebacks to project creators, including chargeback fees and I think possibly even their cut of the pledge.
All these heavily-funded companies just waste too much money on unnecessary bureaucracy.
"Bitcoin is not without risks. But at least it's run by engineers in a way and to a degree that can't be said about DC and Wall Street."

You are comparing apples with oranges. Currency vs. Banking system.
NaNoGenMo - Generate a 50,000-word "novel" from FanFiction.net
Opening disputes (either with amazon or the credit card company) is basically the only way for funders to recoup any money from scam kickstarters. Saying they should accept it as an option would only mean more honest funders getting scammed out of their money if a project falls through should they go for e.g. bank transfer/cryptocurrency. No dishonest funder would willingly go for a payment method where their MO doesn't work. Enforcing it for high value investments means the honest investors have no way of getting their money back from a less than honest KS campaign.
Anyone else tried this on Linux? On Mint 15 and Ubuntu 13.04 FF25 is has >1 second lag. Chrome 30 is fine.
Your defense almost makes sense, but it still leaves out the fact that it grades from red to white, and blue to white, until it hits the middle -- at which point it suddenly turns purple.

To go with your defense, it should grade from red to purple between the highest point and the mean, and blue to purple between the lowest point and the mean.
It really annoys me to see people judging studies based off of press coverage of them. If you're going to accuse it of being shoddy, at least take five minutes to read the paper. I'm not saying you're wrong, since I just spent five minutes reading the paper and they do use an modelling tool in the way that you suggest (and also use it to combine multiple reports from over the years or reports with only partial information). It's just that it's very easy to see something and wisely claim "Oh I bet they're making this laughable mistake based off of some vague claim in an article I'm criticizing" which is kind of harmful. I've said things in the past like "I read a study that X" and immediately the other person was like "Oh but that's just correlation", which is a good thing to think but seriously, it's not like the people writing these studies don't know that correlation-isn't-causation and might have thought to address that. I hadn't mentioned any methods used in the study because I didn't recall any of them, yet the gross assumption that it was wrong was still lept to. So if communities like Hacker News want to ever believe any science report ever (and they probably do), then I really think people should slow down and at least give the study the benefit of the doubt. You shouldn't have to read between the lines - the actual study is free on PLOS. If you don't have the time or expertise to read the paper, just pose this complaint as a question instead and probably someone else here will do the work for you.
A data center can be placed on commodity cheap land. A store has to be close to where people want to be, so on expensive real estate. The floating solution is very elegant, I hope they pull it off. Looking forward to floating boutiques all along the Seine.