skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AskHN: Any Interest In A Schneier Block Cipher Self-Study Group?
Schneier Block Cipher Self-Study - https://www.schneier.com/paper-self-study.html

I'm thinking of working through this. If anyone else is interested we could set up some kind of mailing list (I will be making slow progress, I imagine, and am not the kind of person who solves problems in a group, so for me the list would likely be more about finding relevant papers and the like, or sharing ratings about which are harder, but each to his own...)
Security of Infrastructure Secrets
It looks like there are several torrents out there, but an 'official' one would be nice to have.
I think a major reason for the indifference is ignorance. Many people here in the UK are not well informed on this issue. I'm shocked at how many people I've spoken to about this and they're only hearing it for the first time. Apart from the Guardian no major news outlet that I have seen has given this scandal any prominence. They have mostly acquiesced with the recommendation from our security services that they don't report on this issue. In my opinion another scandal in itself.

Another factor may be that people in this country don't think the risk of tyranny returning as credible. They don't believe that the danger posed by mass surveillance will ever be anything but hypothetical, that somehow a free society is our national destiny. This shocking complacency manages to both totally ignore human nature and the lesson from almost every history book ever written.

As a country I really hope we get real about these issues and that we stop taking our hard won civil liberties for granted. Ultimately they're the only things that can be trusted to truly protect our democracy.
So essentially there's no way for you to ever feel that MSG is safe because the normal outcome is "no negative effects" which, for you, will never counterbalance the few studies that have shown negative effects. I suppose someone would have to publish a study that shows positive effects for you to consider it?
this company (backed by high-profile investors) is setting out to do just that:
http://www.planetaryresources.com/
thanks for this. i tried to download the list a while back, but it timed out half-way through. this satisfied my idle curiousity...
http://www.nfpa.org/~/media/files/research/nfpa%20reports/ve...

Its pretty rare for car fires to happen on public highways. Most car fires are incidents with a vehicle at rest, or deliberately set. Something like 2% of accidents involve petrol based fuels systems. Many more are cuased by other issues.

Telsla (as an example) previously recalled ~40% of its Roadster models in 2010 for fire-hazard related faulty wiring. That kind of thing would be attributable to any type of car.

The high incidence of Model S LiIon fires in the field, is much more problematic and worrisome, IMHO. Like you say, it may just be a design flaw on the location of the battery pack. Aft of the front axle is a debri-zone, wheras aft of the rear axle would be more protected from debris (but subject to crumple zone impacts compromizing the integrity of the pack directly or through shrapnel)
The popular searches terrify me.
Did you ever do any research/tests/courses with Smalltalk as the first language?
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about anything.

>my company is in public beta and haven't even launched yet!

Buy low, sell high. You don't approach this early for no reason.

>they specifically said that their senior M&A team and C-level execs have been thinking about building a product similar to ours

That was meant to scare you. Ironically, if you're smart, it achieves the opposite. "Ok, so why don't you? What does a 6-man startup have that a global player doesn't?"

My tentative vote, pending further information: Nay. From your thread comments, you seem psyched about the product - see how far that enthusiasm can push your product before you risk losing it. When you're enthusiastic, you want to "control your own destiny," as they say in college football. Also, beware "best case scenario" bias. If it were me, I would promise you creative control, teams on top of teams beneath you, fair captain. But where do you see that. Google acqui-kills 100 companies a year.
I'm gifted and cursed with a very very common name, it's in the top 20 of male first/last combinations.

I've had trouble with flying because of it, I've had some difficult explaining to do when some overly broad background checks come back (matching on first/last/DOB), problem with collection agencies, and the usual problem of it being impossible for any agency to find me by first/last (a double edged sword).

It's frustrating but its also a shield, so long as no one can bridge the gap between my real name and the nickname I use online, I'm safe from this kind of digging, I feel sorry for those who're not.
Clickable - https://www.schneier.com/paper-self-study.html

Direct to PDF - https://www.schneier.com/paper-self-study.pdf
Pretty much everything does. The question is how fast. When steel rusts, it manages to increase the surface area available to more chemical reactions, which is why rust spreads like a cancer. I don't think aluminum does this.
Investors look for validation from peers, competitors, anyone. Having interest is good as long as you can win in terms of executing on the product.
I just meant whether or not I can make friendly arrangements to hang around for a month or two, I think I can read between the lines enough here to conclude that the answer is yes. Thanks. :)
I mark as spam and automatically move it to the trash. I actively try to see if spam maybe missed on accident and I don't need that in the way. I also don't bother unsubbing because it always seem like you get more spam. Why take any chances?
A lawyer once told me that to win a libel/slander case, you needed to show:

1. that the statements made were false

2. that the person making them had malicious intent (i.e. they knew the statements were false and weren't simply joking)

3. some demonstrable harm

I.e. saying "Fred is a jerk" isn't slander, because that's a statement of opinion, not a fact. Saying "Fred is a thief and a drunk" is a statement of fact.
When I go into a store and ask the salesman for help, his first question is invariably, What price range are you looking for?

Yes, I could answer his question (and the OP could answer your questions), but I prefer not to. I want to hear about all the options.

The OP might prefer a warm climate, but he might be willing to tolerate colder weather if he's told it's super cheap or has city-wide free wifi. He might be a freelancer but might change his objective if he heard that a particular country was granting easy visas for startup founders.

I know you're trying to be helpful by asking the OP to give a precise spec on what he wants, but this entire discussion would have been far less interesting if he had done so!
Don't most patent trolls purchase or license the patents they are suing with as opposed to actually filing them? That seems like a pretty big distinction.
Yet two other countries on my personal No Fly List.

...

[x] UK (can force people to hand over passwords)

[x] US (probability that they reject people at the border/airport for ridiculous reasons)

[x] Qatar (exit visa required)

[x] Saudi Arabia (exit visa required)

...

Even if I'm not sure if those exit visas also apply to short term visitors. Better safe than sorry.
I think we need to try to define small blows if that's what you're going to call this. They hit a trailer hitch, fast, and it pierced 1/4 inch of steel armor. In a car with similar clearance and without such armor it seems there's a very real chance it could have penetrated the driver or passenger compartments. I don't think that's a small blow.
Glad you are asking, these are enforced in Germany as well. I personally witnessed police waiting behind traffic lights to catch cyclists running a red light, stopping cyclists who ride on a pedestrian-only path and checking for proper lights at night. I think they also check for drunken riders, although I have never witnessed that personally.

Cyclists get fined, and they can even loose their driving license (for cars).

These checks are not too-frequent (neither are those for car drivers), but they exist.
Steven Sinofsky: Appraising Performance Appraisal
Possibly they're checking random URLs to see if a site is erroneously redirecting what should be 404s to random content pages?
This reminds me about people who are fanatical about avoiding nitrates in Bacon, not realizing that the "natural" celery salt added to Bacon means that actually the expensive bacon sold in Whole Foods actually has more nitrates than conventional bacon. It's just "natural" nitrate, so it must be ok.....
Ask HN: What is the best place in Canada to live cheaply and work?
Similar to the US / Europe threads.
I agree with most of your points, except for these two:

> Britain [has] less interference in policy from religious extremists [than the US]

This seems a slightly rose-tinted view of British history. I would argue Britain actually has more interference in policy from religious extremists than the US. What would you call the Lords Spiritual (the 26 seats in the House of Lords reserved for Anglican Bishops) if not religious interference in policy?

Or how about Section 28, which was proposed and pushed through primarily by religious groups? US government policy is frequently influenced by religion, but the separation of Church and State tempers this, and the Supreme Court has frequently overturned legislation that has been drawn up with religious influence (and indeed, directly overturned legislation that actively promotes religion in state institutions). In the UK the church is the state.

You only have to look at the recent issues surrounding gay marriage (versus civil partnerships) in the UK to see there is religious interference in governmental policy.

> a history of judges making activist decisions in order to preserve civil liberties where legislation threatens to undermine established convention

I would argue the US has an equally strong history of this, and the current Supreme Court system in the UK owes a lot to the US. Indeed, I think the etymology of the phrase 'activist judge' stems from the US, not the UK.
How do you interview potential users in a city you are not in?
Increasing Brand-Value of Mailinator.com with a Web Comic
How to Transform an Under Performing Culture (KUMC)
The trending search term "noodles" seems to only give SFW pics of noodles or completely unrelated NSFW results.
Pull over and do what, exactly? Be a road hazard? Call a mechanic to come look at the car?? Stop blaming the victim, that's not what we're here for.
I still think "umami" looks out of place next to the other basic taste words. All the others come in adjective/noun pairs: sweet/sweetness, salty/saltiness, etc. Where's the adjective for "umami"? "Umami" again? "Umami-tasting"? It doesn't work well (and importing the Japanese adjective "umai" would make things worse, not better).

Instead, I highly prefer the adjective sapid with its corresponding noun sapidity. Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, sapid. Sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, sapidity. Much better.
A more aggressive version of this I posted 1019 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2139617
If you understand DH key exchange (the one where you multiply numbers modulo something) then you know what the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) is. All that EC crypto is, is a way of doing the same maths, but replacing integers with points on a curve.

If you remember a bit of maths theory you know that you can define groups and things with multiplication and the like. It's that kind of idea.

The advantage is that the known best approaches to solving the DLP for integers don't carry across to the points on a curve (because the points don't work like integers for all of maths - they support enough to the crypto, but not enough for the attack). So you can use smaller keys.

AFAICT. IMHO. IANAM/C.
Budapest ticket inspectors are not a representative of the Eastern Europe region, you know?
I love this game. Ottoman Empire, Bolivia [1], China [2], Philippines, Mozambique.

1: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim%C3%B3n_Bol%C3%ADvarl
2: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Chin
I can't respond directly to e12e's comment ("Please don't use equal for assignment" -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6704229) so I'll slightly abuse responding by doing so at this level.

We don't EVER use = for assignment. For us, = is binding. If you write

fun f(x):
y = x * x
y = x + 2
x - y
end

Pyret will say

I'm confused: y is defined twice

and point to the two bindings.

The goal here is to make the common case work fine, where you create a bunch of distinct local bindings; but when you try to mutate, you have to do it explicitly:

fun f(x):
var y = x * x
y := x + 2
x - y
where:
f(10) is -2 # the test passes
end

The first line inside f says "y is _currently_ this, but it's variable, so look out!", and subsequent mutations use := to change y. Unlike JavaScript (say), mutating a variable that hasn't previously been defined is an error, rather than quietly adding the variable to the set of defined names.
Really? The concept of a block that specifies a contract does not sound similar to the design by contract capabilities of Eiffel. Care to enlighten us why not?

Perhaps you think I was referring to something other than the quote in the comment I replied to.
https://nightweb.net/

https://unfold.com/

I know of a few other startups that use Clojure in various degrees, but the above two are probably the only ones I know of that are nearly pure Clojure.
Successful teams collaborate on decisions. Technical decisions, decisions about how, are best left to developers... although insight from management about changes in the team, new features, and the like can significantly impact those decisions. Decisions about what to do are more frequently business decisions, including prioritization of the work. Respect, understanding responsibilities, and collaboration is the makings of a good team.
Can skip to 11:41 if you are not interested in the background of the University of Kansas Hospital: http://youtu.be/jImREteHF8Q?t=11m41s
Yes. Especially when someone else mistyped their email address, you did not ask for confirmation, and now I get endless emails without the ability to sign out. So I just mark everything as spam, which I know isn't what you were hoping for. :)
Mostly OT: I've been working on the spec for a lang I'd like to implement at some point and would like feed back if anyone cares to give any?

https://github.com/jimktrains/k5
>>It's working, right down to the prediction that I'd be called a troll within 30 minutes

Making the same argument multiple times in a thread turns this into a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If you rely on that, then you've made it fairly easy for a big company to steamroll over a legitimate small inventor, since they won't have the resources to compete with your legal team, and they can't sell the patent to someone who does have the resources since that person would then be labeled a troll.
The problem with tesla is the active suspension dropping you to a couple inches off the road on the highway. Debris that you would normally pass over shoots into the under carraige..
Off-topic, but in case you're not using British English, please be aware that "oriental" is largely considered pejorative and offensive.
Yes, and that's your biggest risk.

Tried a niche, online T shop with a friend years ago (before Spreadshirt existed). We worked with a local T shop at first but their minimums were a drag. A big T shop in a lower income town about 100 miles from us (we were in Santa Monica) agreed to waive minimums and do drop shipping.

Problem ended up being quality we or the shop couldn't consistently control. It was great for weeks, then bad for a batch, then good again.

Returns and re-shipping costs due to low quality finally killed us.
The US was never attacked in WWII. The UK was. Look at how extreme September 11th made us, even 12 years later, and you can imagine what WWII did to Britain.
I'm highly skeptical of Truthinlabeling.org. The person/group behind it seem to highlight a kindle book alleging a link between Alzheimer's and MSG? The information is also rather muddled and unclear. I would not consider this to be a reliable source.

I'd also encourage anyone reading the above links to take a peek at this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Excitotoxicity

There are some notable discrepancies with the article and it seems clear that this is not a black and white issue, but rather complicated.
chess is good!
> ... maybe it's time to make the admission system be based on standardized tests ...

Certain genetic groups have lower test scores for biological reasons. Admissions officers are given wide latitude for the purpose of admiting token applicants from those groups.
It's easy to obtain the equivalent of multiple return values by using a literal object.

I've been burned by multiple return values numerous times in Scheme and Racket. They're very subtle and hard to make performant. It's one of those language features that very much does _not_ pay its own way, so you have to really, really need it to want to put it in your language. My view is that its uses are not many, and most (all?) can easily be achieved with literal objects. That's why Pyret doesn't have them and is unlikely to get them.
I'm not arguing for or against the Lords Spiritual, but the Church of England is probably the most liberal wishy-washy organised religion there is.
I don't think Saudi will miss your custom - unless you're a Muslim (visiting for Hajj) or coming in on business you're going to find it near impossible to get into Saudi anyway. The only country it is harder to get tourist visas for is probably North Korea.

> UK (can force people to hand over passwords)

You are aware that most, if not all countries can force you to hand over your passport? If you are arrested and bailed the government don't really want you trying to flee the country. Even if you're not arrested many courts can compel you to surrender your passport (for example, in a child custody case). Some countries will also make you surrender your passport if you're entering certain disputed territories (Chinese citizens, for example, must give up their passport when entering Taiwan).
How to integrate a WrapBootstrap theme into a Rails app
When somebody says:

> It's unethical to act against the express request of your employer;

What they really mean is:

> If your boss requested that you do not do that, then it is unethical to hide that you're doing that from your boss while continuing to receive salary from that boss.

If you really don't want to do something, the ethical thing is to discuss that openly with your boss, and if he doesn't agree, he can fire you. Continuing to do it behind his back is unethical.
Typhoon Haiyan
It could also be the large amount of sodium that gets released when it touches my tongue as well, but the effect is undeniable.
I downloaded all my logs from a public-facing development server. Hitting anything returns "403 Forbidden" except for a few domains which should not be crawled (google does it anyway). Most traffic is usual (hit / and /robots.txt then leave). All I found (in 41 rotated logs) was:

access.log.12:66.249.73.132 - - [29/Oct/2013:01:26:15 +0100] "GET /?ac=2 HTTP/1.1" 403 135 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
access.log.12:66.249.73.132 - - [29/Oct/2013:03:24:12 +0100] "GET /?tag=lazy HTTP/1.1" 403 135 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
access.log.3:66.249.66.57 - - [06/Nov/2013:12:12:42 +0100] "GET /?ac=2&slt=8&slr=1&lpt=1 HTTP/1.1" 403 135 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
access.log.4:66.249.75.57 - - [05/Nov/2013:19:14:19 +0100] "GET /?cat=1 HTTP/1.1" 403 135 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
access.log.5:66.249.66.109 - - [04/Nov/2013:15:54:01 +0100] "GET /?ac=2&slt=8&slr=1&lpt=1 HTTP/1.1" 403 135 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
access.log.5:66.249.75.18 - - [05/Nov/2013:03:08:27 +0100] "GET /?ac=2&slt=8&slr=1&lpt=1 HTTP/1.1" 403 135 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

I have no idea what "?ac", "?cat" or "?tag" are suppose to do. Nothing on the server responds to GET params (I use url rewrites and POST only) so I don't think I ever made a link (not even accidentally).

I found nothing for "/profile" or "/news"
Fun fact: Saudi Arabia didn't outright outlaw slavery until 1965. (No, not 1865' 1965)

Things take time in that part of the world
Super typhoon Haiyan: One of world’s most powerful storms in history from space
If they wind up holding it in winter, European enthusiasm for the World Cup is going to plummet even without the other factors. Forget all those public gatherings, large and small, which are a huge part of the experience of major tournaments.

The TV broadcasters are already objecting to the proposed winter move. It's just an awful decision on every level for everyone who wasn't being directly bribed by the Qataris.

I do maintain a tiny shred of hope that a few major nations will withdraw from FIFA after this summer, bringing the whole thing toppling down. It's a fantasy, though. Most football politicians are nearly as bad.
if you were going to write that code, would you use a url like that or a long, random string that you know will not exist? and why wouldn't you add at the end "this will not exist don't worry"?
Can anyone else not read the last lines of some of the slides?
If I'm not mistaken, ISO makes most of its money not from member contributions but from selling paper copies of the standards. Speaking cynically, perhaps they needed a way to ensure their clients (libraries, companies, governments) will pay for "updates".
topic: Ask HN: What's the best place in Europe to live and work cheaply?

> I would recommend against a country using the Euro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone

Dude, 17 out 27 EU member states use the € with Latvia joining 1 Jan 2014 and Lithuania 1 Jan 2015. Population of Eurozone: 330 million. Good luck coming to Europe and avoiding the Eurozone: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain.

Some of these places are really really cheap to live in and work in, and life on the ground varies drastically _within_ countries as well, especially bigger countries like Germany - witness Munich versus Berlin. Yours is the most bizarre advice I've heard in a long long while.

For the interested check out the variation in GDP per capita by region:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_regions_by_GD...

Goes from ~ €80,000 to ~ €7,000
Scala is statically typed through-and-through. Pyret is designed to always offer a dynamic account of the language. We do have a static type checker under development (it's all-but-ready to release), but it will always work over a language where type annotations are optional. We also have a radically different idea about type inference, which we are currently trying out. In short, Pyret and Scala are already quite different and will grow even more so soon.
Perhaps they could use a radar scanner at the front to look for oversized objects, and react by pumping the suspension up to maximum height?
No, not at all evil, if they don't control the message who else will? (HN commenters not withstanding)

I'm just saying the way they are going about it insults my intelligence.
I find it interesting that you decide that assumptions about software process maturity are dubious but are happy to make assumptions about the lack of utility of "brain teaser" questions or personality tests.
I've been using HN for many years and pages usually take more than a second or two to load, sometimes several. How long have you been using HN? Have we been using the same site and experiencing different load times?