skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no free lunch. Securing your communications against every possible attack has a cost. If the cost is so high that even the intended recipient cannot pay it, that may be as bad or worse than transmitting in the clear.

It will always be an arms race between defenders and attackers, because the cost of everything changes over time. You will always have to worry about some genius getting struck by a satori that makes your entire encryption scheme worthless.

The problem is akin to someone in the shipbuilding business worrying about the discovery of a beam that can reduce the strength of a 1-cm thick steel plate to 1-cm thick toilet paper--and the effect is not attenuated by normal matter. The inventor could build a facility in the hinterlands that could instantly and tracelessly sink any steel ship, anywhere in the world.

That is what encryption designers are up against. TBL is upset because intel agencies have been quietly quashing non-vulnerable schemes and/or actively promoting vulnerable ones, paying no heed to the possibility that their enemies might also have some geniuses, or that their own geniuses' ideas might replicate and leak outside of their info-fortress.
Firefox OS fan Geeksphone plans high-end Revolution
it started a lifelong fascination with Linux

indeed, a far worse punishment... ;)
Firehose Provider DataSift Raises $42M Led By Insight Venture Partners
The longest short story I've seen so far has been around 5,000 words, which will take about 38 minutes to read [1]. Most of the poems are very short, and the essays are quite varied.

Assuming you don't have two hours to dedicate to reading each night, you could always still use the guide but break one night's content into two nights worth of reading. Provided that you read something each night, I'd count the endeavor as a success.

[1] - http://www.speechinminutes.com/
IANAL but based on experience, in general you can legally "own" a company/startup while on F1/H1B but you cannot "run" it. However, USCIS has come up with an explanation of "Employer-Employee relationship [0]" which is worth looking into if on H1B. The Requirement 1 is interesting:

+ How do I demonstrate an employer-employee relationship if I own my own company?
If you own your company you may be able to demonstrate that an employer-employee relationship exists if the control of your work is exercised by others. For example, if your company has a board of directors, preferred shareholders, investors, or other factors that show your organization has the right to control the terms and conditions of your employment (namely the right to hire, fire, pay, supervise or otherwise control the terms and conditions of your employment), then you may be able to meet this requirement. Some of the evidence you may submit to demonstrate the distinction between your ownership interest and the right to control your employment includes:

Term Sheet
Capitalization Table
Stock purchase Agreement
Investor rights Agreement
Voting Agreement
Organizational documents and operating agreements

Otherwise, your options are almost none unless you quality for EB5 [1]

[0] http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupatio...

[1] http://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers...
Well you can buy it tonight on indiegogo [1].

We expect to be in the shops in the uk in February 2014 (and we'll ship physical or digital copies to the rest of the world then). We hope to be in newsagents and book stores world wide not long after that, but it will depend on our distributors.

[1] http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/linux-voice
Dev here. Our team has grown to love the GitHub pull request workflow. We built Prune to solve one issue we consistently run into: how to QA on the various branches before merging. Happy to answer questions and thanks for any feedback!
> I noticed the digital and print price was about the same

The price is the same, but for a different period.

The digital subscription is 35ukp for 12 months, and UK physical subscription is also 35ukp but only covers 6 months.
It was a very interesting and eye-opening article though I don't think we can wholly blame this on the marketing of video games. I have a sister who has never liked video games and instead spent her time with dolls even though me and my brother had always tried to get her into video games.

I remember when we got our first Tamagotchies. My sister fried her's by sticking it in a bucket of water. When we got her another one she used it for a few seconds and then played with her dolls.

I think -as seen in a article recently posted- that since boys brains are wired differently we are into different things and that is natural.

Also there isn't anything stopping girls from playing video games. To be honest I think a girl that plays video games is more attractive and I bet most men would.

NOTE: I am in no way saying "toys" are limited to boys or trying to imply anything sexist but what I am saying is that the division of boy toys and girl toys isn't wholly because of marketing.
They get the 80's crash analysis all wrong. There was never a demand implosion due to uncertainty of quality. These were 8 bit sprites. Crap was standard. Crap was good. All 8-bit console games look low quality compared to the first 8-bit computer games. We still bought. Something way more important was the first widely-available consumer 8-bit computers. Compare Atari 2600 Pac-man to Atari 400 Pac-man... and that's not the Atari XL line.

No consideration of a sudden shift in early adopters to Atari XL and Commodore 64 computers?? What year did those drop 82-83? The games for those PC-precursors were 1) way better and 2) pirate's booty. The abilities of those machines moved beyond what could be packed into consoles and the margins seemed higher. The price for a game went to free. That meant you could buy second floppy drives, 300 baud modems, dot matrix printers (24 pins FTW!) instead of games.

Computer clubs were not uncommon and literal swap meets of 5.5" floppies. Early modems gained access to BBS's and created cornucopias of free software - legit and not.

They should also review Master's of Doom and get insight into the personalities behind the seminal FPS. There were no marketers outside of the dev team there. They were making something they loved to play and they loved the thrill/hilarity of over-the-top power and gross-out humor. If you want to empower or blame the feedback loop of marketing driving development, you shouldn't ignore all the history prior to the present-day machine.

Thank goodness they are writing an article which confirms that the world is changing because women aren't sitting quietly by, letting history be written by loud-mouthed men any more.

But it's an awkward dance to read trying to fill enough space to provide ample vertical scrolling to get a sense for why it took so many people to construct the page...
"Living through the Financialisation of the Biosphere," Philip Mirowski
How to Use Black Status Bars in iOS 7 Web Apps
A simple rule of thumb seems to be is, does it cause a problem if all the bug bounty hunters take the same approach.

Phishing employees, DDoSing definitely cause problems if a large number, or one, of bug bounty hunters take on the approach.

It seems even if all the bug bounty hunters searched for and found http://intra.prezi.com:8081, preformed google searches and tested found logins by hand, no problem would result for prezi.

So it seems like Phishing employees and DDoSing are inherently different then the approach in the post.
"Watch the video" is not clickable and the link above it is gated with a sign-in. Why?
While I've been in similarly frustrating exchanges, losing your cool (all-caps and swearing) helps nobody, including yourself. It doesn't help the already flustered and incompetent CSR help you out.

I find that in these situations, acting calmly and firmly (in this case, the only out seems to be to ask for someone more competent to talk to) is the only way out.

I'm not saying this from some sort of high-ground either. I recently had a very similar situation with Freelancer.com where someone signed up an alias to my gmail address. The support people were completely clueless and hapless when it came to 1) Realizing what the problem was and 2) Solving it. It took over a week and tens of email exchanges. I would by lying if I said my tone didn't become terse and angry towards the end.
Break the rules, don't get the money. Surprise!!?? After reading the entire email thread, I think Prezi comes out better off than the OP:

Actually we're continuously thinking on your case and struggling on the right move. On one hand, your finding was very useful for us, and we learnt a lesson from it. On the other hand, intra.prezi.com is out of scope, and by using the credentials to log in you violated the terms and conditions of our bounty program.

...

In the past we turned down the bounty request of people finding issues in out-of-scope services. We had a lot internal discussions about your request: if we were about to pay, we couldn't justify our out-of-scope decisions for anyone else.
There's no such visa unfortunately. If you qualify for an EB-1A you could self petition without a job offer and receive a green card that would entitle you to work wherever you'd like. But that requires you to be among the best in your field. It's a pretty high bar.
Then consider that Javascript runs on the JVM, and add every language which can be compiled to Javascript.

Then consider that, via Emscripten, any language which targets LLVM can be compiled to Javascript, so add every language with an LLVM frontend.

The consider that C has an LLVM frontend, and add every language which can be compiled to C.

Yes, indeed! We now live in a time where your Chicken Scheme codebase can be compiled to C, then compiled to Javascript, then intepreted in a Javascript interpreter that is being interpreted on a Java interpreter that is being interpreted on a .Net interpreter.
Arunoda does make a lot of great contributions to the Meteor community. MongoDB oplog tailing was actually introduced by him earlier (http://meteorhacks.com/lets-scale-meteor.html). Although the core Meteor team probably had this on their radar, his implementation was the first publicly distributed, and he's one of the leading Meteor users pushing its use into production and reporting on how it goes.
It is interesting to see the complexity of strategies needed to play adwords increase over time. Big budget advertisers use predictive models and automated bidding to quickly react to changing conditions. I predict some years in the future we'll have crazy high frequency trading robots battling each other like in the stock market.
I've definitely written a URL escaping routine in bash before :)
We put hammocks in our dorm room to free up the beds for construction materials. Except we didn't count on the steel studs, which when were both in our hammocks caused one wall to bow in ominously. The whole lie in the hammocks with our girlfriends thing was clearly not going to work. :-)
Go with a Shelby Cobra. They are so choice. If you have the means...

http://www.thesmokingtire.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/She...
Because it's a "zero tolerance" after "10 mph tolerance" policy.
It strikes me as a bit sensationalist to call that an "incident". Someone asked a question, they responded civilly. The discussion turned slightly inflammatory amongst other Redditors (i.e. not the actual CAH guys), as isn't completely unexpected on Reddit when you're discussing an even vaguely touchy subject.
I like the idea and would like to work on it (I have very, very limited experience with Rails but learn quickly), but definitely not looking to run it.
This looks awesome. I love the auto screenshot feature.
Frankly if a taxi driver bitched on his blog about someone doing that I'd be saying the same thing. It's nice when someone gives you a reward for doing the right thing. But you shouldn't act like you're entitled to it, because you're not.
You can work as an independant contractor or start a company on an OPT, STEM extension and even on a Pre-Completion OPT.

I recommend that you read this policy guidance published by the ICE in 2010.

http://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/opt_policy_guidance_0420...

It clearly states that:

On page 18.

 Work for hire. This is also commonly referred to as 1099
employment, where an individual performs a service based on a
contractual relationship rather than an employment relationship. If
requested by DHS, the student must be prepared to provide
evidence showing the duration of the contract period and the name
and address of the contracting company.

 Self-employed business owner. A student on OPT may start a
business and be self-employed. The student must be able to prove
that he or she has the proper business licenses and is actively
engaged in a business related to the student’s degree program.

On page 19

For a student who is on a 17-month extension, this employment may
include

 Multiple employers. A student may work for more than one employer,
but all employment must be related to his or her degree program and
all employers must be enrolled in E-Verify.

 Work for hire. This is also commonly referred to as 1099
employment, where an individual performs a service based on a
contractual relationship rather than an employment relationship. The
company for whom the student is providing services must be
registered with E-Verify. If requested by DHS, the student must be
prepared to provide evidence showing the duration of the contract
period and the name and address of the contracting company.

 Self-employed business owner. A student on a 17-month extension
can start a business and be self-employed. In this situation, the
student must register his or her business with E-Verify and work full
time. The student must be able to prove that he or she has the
proper business licenses and is actively engaged in a business
related to his or her degree program.

Contact me if you are interested in learning more about this topic.

Akshay Bhat (Cornell University)
Historically I come from a family of peasants. Especially after WW2 both sides of my family were poor, but there was a period before then that one side was rich farmers.

They were only rich because my great grandfather bought the farm where he used to work as essentially slave labor (they'd only get food and board in return for being manual labourers, it was a thing back then).

But anyway, this age thing was something I read in books about late 19th and very early 20th century.
It's unreasonable. If someone wants to record they will use a hidden camera. This is fake protection.
The H1B petition process requires the employer to show that it can pay the prevailing wage. That's going to be near impossible for a pre-funding startup.
They laugh at it of course. What else can you do about a "currency" invented by an unknown entity, loved by videogamers and whose total circulation is below the GDP of mongolia?
I think you're misunderstanding. The point was that they would test their thesis quickly and with available means to validate their idea.

The actual product wouldn't involve burning a bunch of fossil fuels.
Here is a link to USCIS own guidance for the above question.
http://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/entrepreneur-visa-guide

IMHO, its not impossible and you have options, but it will not be hassle free. You'll have to jump a lot of hurdles before you get through.
Stay in OPT as long as you can. You get more flexibility that way. Try getting the 17 month (I think) extension.

If you are on an H1B, you need to get a US person co-founder and have them 'sponsor' you. Be wary about the start up failing because as soon as the sponsor breaks their contract, you will be out of status [1]. This means you may have to leave the country immediately.

The E5 visa [2] is the best alternative. If you can secure funding of around $500,000, you get the right to live and work in the US almost as a US person. You can work for yourself, travel in and out of the country as you wish, etc.

[1] http://www.klaskolaw.com/articles.php?action=view&id=8

> Terminated H-1B employees should be aware that time is not on their side. If the employee has plans to have another H-1B petition filed on his or her behalf, or to change to another nonimmigrant status, those plans should be implemented as quickly as possible.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa
Running experiments on popular APIs
So I have a concept that I want to test and run a few experiments to see if my assumptions are correct, but I do not have the level of technical knowledge to do this myself.

Anyone know any collaboration platforms that would be useful in this situation. I need someone to bounce ideas of an run the technical side testing what can be done with login APIs.
I believe the guys who started interviewstreet were on an H1B visa. Maybe talk to them?
>What cooperation, exactly? Malaysian children being forced (perhaps not in the physical sense, but certainly in the economic sense) to work 13 hours/day for less than 1 USD so that Target can sell Kathy Lee Gifford's branded sweaters for $15? Is that really the world you want to live in? There is no cooperation here, it is exploitation pure and simple.

And you think the worker would be better off if you didn't buy it? No they'd just be unemployed or employed at a worse job. I'm all for spreading the wealth generated by the economy more fairly, but simply removing trade doesn't actually make anyone better off.

>Well, first of all, he lives in your neighborhood. If he is economically secure, it is less likely he will break into your house and steal your TV.

The money you lose by buying more expensive local products, plus the the probability that the small amount of your money that actually goes to a local worker will make him less likely to rob, times the probability that he would rob your house specifically...

Even with absurd estimates of how likely that is, it's still cheaper just to spend the money you save on insurance than what you would gain from slightly reducing the risk of robbery.

>Great! So we have shoddily constructed, shitty products that are not meant to last more than a few months anyway, but that we believe are cheaper because the marketing machine told us that we saved 47 cents on the purchase of $foo_widget?

What are you referring to that has been reduced in quality so much it actually costs more in the long run (especially things where this is done without the consumer's knowledge or choice to buy higher quality elsewhere.)? And can you actually attribute that to Walmart specifically, and it wouldn't have happened anyways? Or even just people making irrational purchasing decisions or just having a high time preference?
The Feds eventually send it back to themselves and convert the BitCoins into dollars once they have all the information they need in evidence. So they don't permanently leave the supply.

The BitCoins they were able to seize, that is.
Cyber Monday sets new mobile sales record as iOS tops Android
That's not fair, first wait for Kotlin to exist (stable release in @18 months last I checked) before making such a comparison.

Scala 2.12 and Kotlin 1.0 release points should roughly coincide. Scala's got a wee bit of a head start, but if Kotlin delivers on the promise to compile as fast as Java, then for sure they'll gain traction.

Speaking of build times, just got back from the ScalaExchange conference in London (suprisingly large turnout, a little over 400 attendees). Talking with one of the Typesafe team members, it appears that Jason Zaugg (works on the compiler) recently found a way to reduce build times by 20-30%...and that's just for 2.11, good times ahead ;-)

Should point out that incremental builds + sub projects pretty much completely mitigate the "scala is slow" argument, but for deployment Jason's recent enhancements will be a boon to all Scala teams, large and small.
People talk about RyanAir from two viewpoints; "they were fine as I knew how to not get ripped off", or "I got ripped off and I'll never use them again".

Look into the safety of RyanAir - pilots scared about how little fuel is onboard, landings with damage have happened too often for comfort etc. and if you're in the first group you would be insane not to become part of the second.

http://lowcostaccidents.wordpress.com/category/ryanair/

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/dispatches-ryanair-p...

Look into Michael O'Leary and what he's said and done, and then ask yourself if you think he's someone you trust your life with.

I don't, and I'll fly anyone but RyanAir out of the UK. The difference in price is often a few pounds at most, and for me I'd rather cut costs elsewhere.
I don't see a single fucking swear word in his reply...
18 for me & 14 adblocked
Please your information is incorrect, with proper authorization (OPT or STEM extension) a student on an F1 visa can start a company.

Please look at my other post for reference to the guidance published by ICE.
Note to self - don't build an RTB platform.
It's totally worth it. just force them to be computer controlled when flying low altitude in densely populated areas.
Exactly what I was looking for. I just configured it to receive at my personal gmail!
Makes me wonder what the roommate could build in a cave with a box of scraps.
Well written piece actually. Perhaps you read something else.
For just one easy payment of $12,995 you too can be a Bitcoin miner
I think the Doge meme at the top perfectly summarizes the discussion and usefulness of 'Amazon Prime Air'.
I get your point, I do this all the time.

About the general population I call social bias: its not cool to do these space-saving hacks, people think you are being cheap and unfashionable, they will rather work themselves to death to afford a bigger place that ironically they now can't enjoy than deploy one of these solutions.

Same with cars: $500 can get you a nice DIY carputer that blows 99% of all factory equipment out of the water, but most people will approve the POS $2000+ optional you get from the dealership while talking smack about the system you built yourself.
Considering that that year I completely hosed my computer at least 5 times trying to get Slax running off a HDD in dual boot (back in 2005), and now I tinker with it daily... Yeah you'd be right ;)
The artwork is good--but wow, the animation and execution are pretty underwhelming for something featured on Adobe.

Edit: In the interest of not being a negative prick, this is something by the same developer that I love: http://codepen.io/rachelnabors/full/lqswg