skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you're just wrong, it's sort of sad. This is far more impressive than so some crud application. It almost seems silly to need to defend that position. Sure, if you factor in the total sum of work and thought needed to make SnapChat possible, you have something impressive ... But that doesn't reasonably explain the complexity of building SnapChat, in fact part of the argument is that it took people building the thing you childishly deride to enable such a monstrosity in the first place.

The level of technical sophistication of this engineer is much higher than your typical hipster programmer, by far.
[I don't currently own any stock or options in TSLA]

Sort of and sorta not. There is a tremendous amount of speculation in Tesla stock. That came about from a number of people making very large bets against and for the company (option trading is quite active for such a 'young' company).

The stock is "priced for perfection" which is to say it is priced at a value that only makes sense if Tesla meets every objective, has no missteps, and doesn't run into any technical or legal issues. Consequently there are lots of people who have various hedges in place to sell stock if it goes down, or buy covering options, etc. Thus any news tends to be magnified on this stock.

Had it not been priced so tightly the effect would have been more inline with other companies when they announce results. (a 3 - 5% change on "news")
As an (ex-) Israeli with no inside information I'd say the NSA is probably way ahead of Israel on this and wouldn't need or use any Israeli knowledge or equipment. I'd also say traditionally Israel relies on human intelligence while the US on signal intelligence. In terms of commercial surveillance equipment I'm sure there's a lot on the market from lots of countries.
Coinbase is great, it has been very secure and reliable. The only thing that i don't like about it is the fact that you have to wait a little while for your Bitcoins to come in, although I haven't used any other exchanges so I don't know if this is standard.
No claim is made under the DMCA, it is merely made to look similarly scary.
Bitcoin uses ECDSA signatures to verify transactions. According to Wikipedia [1], the current record for solving the discrete logarithm problem (which is how you recover a private key from the corresponding public key) was done on a 112-bit key in 6 months. Bitcoin uses 256-bit keys, and the algorithm in question has a complexity of O(2^(N/2)), so breaking its keys is 2^72 times harder.

So even under the ridiculously unlikely assumption that computational power halves in cost every 18 months for the indefinite future: 50 years from now, the entire current global GDP still won't be enough to buy a processor that can crack a Bitcoin key in less than a decade.

(Of course, this is assuming there are no other unknown flaws in the protocol, and that no better algorithms are found to find discrete logarithms over elliptic curves. But if a vulnerability is found, it won't be thanks to Moore's law.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_logarithm_records#Elli...
Horizontal two finger scroll to navigate back in history is somehow prevented. I'm using Chromium.
Are you sure it is not just as simple as opening up a websocket and pipe the frame data as texture data directly into the webgl instant?
In my first development job, I worked very long hours — perhaps because I didn't have great mentors, often worked remotely, and found myself doing tons of learning/education just to get by. This was OK for a while; I had to pay my dues and learn how to do the job, but I do not think it is sustainable, after the first year I burned out and was ready to move on.

Now, I prefer long, uninterrupted workdays, but I do not like to work much more than 40 hours per week. The traditional 5 day per week model is not perfect, though. I prefer 4 longer days (10-12 hours), and 3 days off.
So, I just signed up. I have a trivia game I just launched and I'm trying to boost downloads and IAPs (downloads are actually pretty good).

I really like what I see but I'm trying to understand where I get my $35+/mo of value. What do review analysis & search ranking do for me (that I can't get by just browsing the app store)? How do I convert the data you give into more downloads?

I don't mean any of this as a knock. Your product looks great and I'm willing to put my money behind tools that will help my app.
I think the cost is much higher in terms of well being. As free time shrinks, each additional hour lost is increasingly burdensome.
They weren't actually. Google lied about that. It came out later that the real reason for the Chinese hacking gmail was to see which accounts had "lawful intercept" on them so they would know if their own spies had their cover blown. If the US knew about their spies, it was assumed that they would see the US sniffing the spies gmail accounts.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-20/world/39385755...
We need a list, somewhere on wiki, to collect all these notices and store them forever. Then one day when I'm working on a next venture round and the law firm comes knocking, trying to "help" me for the sizable chunk of this funding, I'll quickly run their name. And will tell them "guys, I'm trying to innovate, you're trying to kill innovation. You're not friends, you're foes. Go away, #$%$%#$%^$^" :-)

I'm sure Apple's money are not my measly $50K, but there're not enough Apples for all the law firms out there...
The other half of that equation is that the requirements for a security clearance tend to filter out the people who are mentally predisposed to question authority.

It is a very rare person who can see all the things wrong with the various Wars on Dignity (drugs, terror, etc) and yet has a nose so clean as to qualify for a top secret clearance. It's kind of like the saying about walking a mile in someone else's shoes before you criticize them - most people just can't conceive of what life is like for someone with an entirely different set of experiences and the logic of authoritarianism is so deceptively simple.

That's not to say that the people with clearances aren't perceptive, just that they are likely to have a focus on other, more technical, issues.
I didn't see any price spike
Toyota (and others) have been touting fuel cells for well over a decade.

I'm not holding my breath - fuel cells are as sustainable and non-oil as flex-fuel (read: vaporware).

Musk makes some very unrefutable points here deriding fuel cells, and Ive had that opinion long before people were listening to Musk:
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/25/elon-musk-munchen-fuel-c...
As for mining, there are enough bits in SHA256 to allow billion-fold increase in difficulty. And if there is a danger of breaking it much quicker, all people holding bitcoins have huge incentive to change the protocol to fix the problem.

As for ECDSA, it can only be broken by quantum computers, but still most balances are protected by sha256*ripemd160 hash, so they are safe in the face of sudden QC attack or a weakness in ECC. People will want to protect their wealth and thus will change the protocol for other algorithms.
You mean Minerva.
I don't know about rails in particular. But there are zero Java jobs. That's gotta say something about Java, which ironically used to be seen as the innovators language.
Well that's ok. But what really needs to happen is this to come from the top management - and most of all, they need to ACT accordingly. Until then, all this "fuck them" exclamations aren't worth a dime.
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One thought is after they tried the first time and didn't find anything they might have been worried they would get in trouble so at that point they might as well keeping going because now they really have to find something to justify what they did.
Not defending them at all just trying to at least attempt to figure out their reasoning.
This entire piece is written from the perspective of someone who sees their job as only a way to make money. That person might look at me and say something along the lines of "look at him, wasting his life away spending time at work." To me, though, he is the one wasting his life spending even a few hours a day to do something he would not do for free. If you don't absolutely love your job, quit. And if you absolutely love your job, why the hell wouldn't you want to stay a few more minutes?
Yes, that's what I meant with "message descriptions". It's definitely not a small task, but again not something that I would say is extremely hard. It's just a lot of work.

I'm curious what 1622 represents here. 1622 different protocols, each with their different messages? Seems like a crazy amount. 1622 different message types for authorization? Even that seems like a stretch.
And yet studies show that next to being below the poverty line, nothing correlates higher with unhappiness than commute times.

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/03/30/commuting/
We still don't know if that was really a loophole or rather access given by Google (of course, they will decline that).
Well, when you eat off the hand of the other country you don't have much choice. Nobody actually asks you if you trust or not.
That is a well produced video, and while I doubt any video can adequately convey the experience of using something like this, it comes near to the mark as makes no matter. Two unfiltered reactions: discretised theremins are missing the point of a theremin, and defocusing to avoid device frame rate issues isn’t worth it—just simulate screen images.
> In contrast, the more batteries Tesla produces the more the cost of lithium increases.

This is true, but misleading. The cost of lithium is a vanishingly small component of the price of the battery, a typical quote is between 1% and 0.1% of the production cost. Lithium is one of the most common elements in the earth's crust, and is plentiful enough in seawater that it cannot run out -- before it's cost is high enough to have any real effect in battery prices, it will be well worth extracting it from the seas. (In which there is enough supply for millions of years.)

The rapid increase in demand caused by proliferation of lithium-ion batteries has spiked the price over the past decade, but that is simply because mining operations take years to spin up, so large changes in demand always lead to large-scale price action. This has not yet had anything but a negligible effect on battery prices, and it will not have one in the future.

I do not understand the current meme of trying to paint all economic issues as resource-limited. That's just not how the world works.
You have two choices - supply your own GUID in the metadata, and this overrides the randomly assigned one, or look in RDP/ssh for it (which is more work than needed - highly recommended you add your own GUID, this way it doesn't need to be copied or grabbed from RDP/ssg)
We will see a crash, of course. The question is how high this new low will be? From $500 to $300? Or from $2663 to $1300?

Bitcoin will only grow slow and steady when it becomes world money. Before that happens, we'll see quick land grab hysteria, huge corrections, consolidation period and then again the same cycle.
The thing about that is I need money to live. The intersection of things I'd do for free and tasks given to me by other people is very small.
I agree, but I do wonder what is going to happen when people start speaking up to say something quite the opposite. "I don't speak for my employer, but I think the NSA is quite awesome and I don't mind that they've been listening to us at all." Or something to that effect.

The clash might be interesting to watch.
Given the snippet of traffic involved, can they make an educated guess which links were compromised to get it? (It is DB replication traffic so if you know the source DB and the dest DB then you can work out the route... in theory anyway, with Google Complexity, who knows...)
Cussing is all fine and understandable, but I missed the part where the Google opsec team was searching for and plugging the holes the NSA is exploiting, or switching to another carrier, or suing the NSA for illegal wiretapping.
The issue with managing your own servers is that you are tied 1:1 to specific hardware. Something fails? You have no server. Need an upgrade? It's a financial outlay. You may lease the hardware and you may also lease the hardware maintenance. In an environment like AWS you wouldn't really care about the hardware. Your instance would have died and you'd restart it and hope for a better hardware. You do trade ease on the hardware front with battling with the unknowns of the cloud. You just need to pick your battles. Hardware battles normally require more work and understanding of the hardware and a lot more menial work (RMA of an AWS instance is far simpler than RMA of a server).
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Are you being sarcastic?

For months Google's only public response was to lobby the government for permission to release stats(?) to prove that they complied with the law - nary a word of criticism for the law itself.

So now that Google's own autonomy has been breached by the NSA (all above-board and legal according to the NSA's legions of loop-hole seeking lawyers) instead of just Google's users, now they are mad?

I just made another post about how a lot of people are unable to imagine what its like for others to be in a situation until they themselves are in the same situation. But... I'm not so sure Google, as an organization, has fully recognized the scope of the problem here.
Bitbucket for closed source projects, and github for open source ones.
They both have issue tracking. What´s wrong with them?

I love the bitbucket issue tracking, because my users can actually add bugs even though the project is closed source.
Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement
Why? Why should the time my money lasts have any bearing on whether we judge markets rational or not?
I was going to mention this also.
> Taxes are the agreed upon payment for services rendered, the EULA for which you agreed to by being in the country.

If taxes were called protection money you still wouldn't connect the dots.
I've never had that "vision" problem with other desktops, what you say is just your own opinión, nothing else.
Yeah shit-faced teenagers, old people, drunks and people who have sex on couches, beds, or god-knows would never stay in an apartment.

Plastic couch cover not included.
Lets start from the beginning: the NSA "hack" became possible because Google (and its security team) made bad assumptions about the security of the connection between Google's data centers and did not encrypt the traffic. Basically, this is security 101: protect data at rest and protect data in flight. So, sorry but I think the better subject for discussion would be how badly Google screwed up, not how evil is NSA. Moreover, it is not clear if other governments or criminals also had access to the users' data (e.g. in Google's data centers located outside of the US). So far Google did not produce any public post-mortem thus we have no clue how bad was the problem.

P.S. I am sure I will get smashed in the comments, so let me say right away that NSA actions should be controlled and audited by the public (e.g. through our representatives in Congress). I think that the biggest "evil" here are the members of Congress who either approved NSA actions or failed to do their job and monitor/audit NSA properly. In particular, I would point my finger at Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D-CA] who should have been ousted from the office long time ago.
Considering the track record of Governments and technology, I pretty much assume that whatever systems the NSA (and friends) had made are so ridden with holes that any/all people who really want access to it, already do, and that all our (worldwide citizens) access is basically out in the open now.

If anything, I'm actually pretty impressed it has gone on this long without seeing posts on underground forums offering access via cracked/leaked accounts and 0days, in exchange for money. Or maybe it has?
I was being sarcastic, yes.
There isn't much to back the price of fiat currencies either: Bitcoin is valued by demand which is effectively the case with other currencies too. If there's demand for bitcoins and trust in the platform, that's all the back up Bitcoin needs.

After all, with any currency the only value it has is the ability to later exchange the currency back to services or material goods.

Even if a currency is backed by gold like in old times there can only be faith in that gold will actually buy you goods in the future, too.
AFAIK most of the time these kinds of attacks are delivered via email attachments sent to specific targets.
You don't need to keep bitcoins on an exchange. It's not like buying stocks or gold certificates. You can own bitcoin like having gold coins shipped to you. Even if the exchange is hacked, your usb stick isn't. Simply buy and withdraw immediately to your encrypted personal wallet.
The problem is that it's not the NSA doing it. It's GCHQ, in the UK.
I'm in favor of what comes from within, but it's important not just to repeat what one already believes.
Accepting the code of others
> redesigning a thing that works well

I really dislike this recent trend we can see in Gnome, Unity, and Google even, but one would be blind to not see the reason behind: They all try to solve the touch issue. Desktops were designed for the mouse, and this do not translate well on touch screens.

One could argue there is a gap that cannot be bridged, but we should not complain that some people are trying to bridge the gap and create an interface that is working well on both screen+keyboard+mouse and touchscreens.
It's not clear to me from the announcement which parts are executed server-side and which client-side.

Companies like iSwifter have tried to do server-side-rendered, streamed Flash games for years with limited success. The local machine in that case simply transmits input and displays video.

I think the difference here is that there will be some client side computation as well, but I'm not sure how much. If the GPU is in the cloud, that seems to indicate that they are bypassing WebGL, which would provide access to the local GPU. So my guess is that the JS does the typical setup work of a CPU in a rendering pipeline (setting up the scene, constructing draw batches), transmits it to the cloud GPU, and then transfers the rendered frame to the local GPU for display.

For interactive applications, it seems like the CPU-cloud GPU latency could be a deal breaker, though John Carmack famously said that it was faster to ping Europe from the US than to draw a pixel to the screen.
In April, I got in @ $220 / BTC.

Yesterday, I got out @ $220 / BTC.

I suck at this.
I was referring to the NYT attacks,

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/chinese-hackers...

Also, what kind of spy uses gmail? Sheesh.
Congrats. Just like a determined programmer will do well with any language/platform, determined individuals will realize their health goals regardless of which fad diet they are currently utilizing.
You gave a way of measuring something else.
No, lock them up. Who cares about their careers? They raped this man repeatedly and had nerve to bill him for it. Your view is just inane.
It would be nice it supported PGP out of the box, I think it would be a strong selling point. Kudos for the initiative.
I've been a hardcore KDE fan since over a decade. Of late though, I am inclined to move fully to GNOME 3. I use KDE on my laptop and GNOME 3 on the work desktop. I find Gnome 3 much more pleasant to work with and it let's me forget about many details of doing things on the desktop. Once I got used to it, it allows me to switch tasks faster and with less focus/flow loss while doing so. It doesn't have a "minimise" button by default in GNOME 3 and at first this annoyed me but now I see that I never think of the concept of mimising something in my workflow. It's one less thing to think about.

I know there's a lot of hate for GNOME 3 floating around but I have tried it and I love it. I showed it to a lot of colleagues and most of them have switched to it too. I think in the next LTS release of Ubuntu, I'll switch my laptop to GNOME 3.
That is not an agreement, at best it is "being held at ransom".

Are you willing to give up your language, culture, job, home, friends and family and probably whole lot of other things to nullify that EULA?

Every law that is a promise to use force, incarceration and violence to uphold it.

And the tax system today is more and more like two wolves and a sheep having a vote on what to eat for supper.
OK, replace "taxes" with "asset forfeiture".
Read this and weep: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_...
We put people in jail for violating drug laws and it does seem to have some effect.

To bad it never occurs to prosecutors that we could encourage police and doctors to obey the law using the same means.

If this man was found with drugs he wouldn't have been offered better training or face a civil lawsuit. If we are willing to be tough on drug users, we should be as tough on people in authority when they break the law.
> Google lied about that

Huh? There's nothing in the Post's information that would preclude both from having happened, so it's would be a stretch to call it a lie even from that article. But in fact, the original blog post[1] talks about multiple goals of the main attack, including listing the targeted attack that the GP is probably referencing as independent from the attack that "resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google". I think it's you that's confusing incidents.

> Third, as part of this investigation but independent of the attack on Google, we have discovered that the accounts of dozens of U.S.-, China- and Europe-based Gmail users who are advocates of human rights in China appear to have been routinely accessed by third parties. These accounts have not been accessed through any security breach at Google, but most likely via phishing scams or malware placed on the users' computers.

edit: ah, and the GP wasn't even talking about the gmail accounts.

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china...
"Or, better yet, even try using the language for five minutes."

But this is HN, it is easier to rant about how evil Dart Wader will destroy the beautiful Javascriptalderaan.
Indeed. It's a good example of how software should be built and set up.
What evidence could justify this? Short of evidence of a nuclear weapon, I can't possibly see where you are coming from.
> "Healthy" oils like olive oil, canola oil, and many nuts have lots of fat, but very little saturated fat.

Why do you consider those oils to be healthful?
It's on my todo list.
it's interesting to watch the saturated fat debunking come into mainstream media. Most people who are deep into food research (I don't like to say "nutrition" because it's such a loaded term now) reading many modern studies, books, and blog posts, already know that saturated fat is good and healthy. Both the comments here and on that article show a good deal of naysayers, and how powerful public opinion is.

These doubters seem to have the most basic "common knowledge" explanation of saturated fat: Sat.fat raises cholesterol, and cholesterol clogs your arteries, and clogged arteries lead to heart disease. If you think this chain is how your body works, you should know that it isn't nearly the entire story, and not accurate.

50% of every cell membrane in your body is saturated fat. Your body produces 75% of the cholesterol that it NEEDS to operate, the rest comes from diet. Why does your body produce cholesterol and what is its purpose? That would be a good research starting point if you are still anti sat.fat.

Of course, you shouldn't trust articles on science reporting. You shouldn't trust me. You should read studies and analyze them yourself. You might be pleasantly surprised by what you find.
Don't forget the part where they are making him pay for the hospital exam.