skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The lack of specificity made cybersecurity expert Robert David Graham dubious that the plot NSA claimed to discover matched the one it described on TV. “All they are doing is repeating what Wikipedia says about BIOS,” Graham blogged, “acting as techie talk layered onto the discussion to make it believable, much like how Star Trek episodes talk about warp cores and Jeffries Tubes.”

A nice summery of how to read NSA PR.
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Builtin features you can't override have data-dependent bugs. Most values work, but some values fail (deterministically) and most users don't know that. You can't even fix the interpreter unless you're running a non-shared copy and are not running any third-party code which happens to rely on the odd misbehavior.

Imagine a language runtime in which arithmetic on exact multiples of 1536 always returned -1. You could work around that if you had to, but it would be awful. You'd have to scrutinize most every line carefully to rule out this ever happening, or wrap every numeric subexpression in some kind of conversion to/from safe values, which nobody would be consistent about doing. The maintenance difference between clear, expressive code and code that actually works would be dramatic. People would tend to realize it started happening again a while ago and rush to fix one spot in production that seems prone to it. The web would be littered with tutorials that punt on handling it in the name of encouraging beginners.

Then there's idiocy like "break 2" which is worse than goto in every possible way yet more widely supported.
It took my son a long time to accept why you can't always fast forward through ads, and why everything isn't available on-demand. He often prefers Youtube, but gets really annoyed when he can't immediately skip the ads.

I used to think live TV would survive because people like to just turn stuff on, but watching my son and other kids I realise that kids growing up with on-demand services, Youtube and DVR's don't seem to grow into that mindset: My son does not want to just turn on some channel, he instead asks for ridiculously specific things and expect it to exist. And as it turns out, most of the time he'll find something "close enough" on YouTube - even if it's some crappy homemade recording of some kid playing with his toys - if it's not something he can find on TV.

Live TV is about to become something unfashionable that old people watch, other than for a few major events.
Less than 100 years ago, this stuff happened. Far out. I truly can't comprehend the strikebreakers getting away with... Well, cold blooded murder. Massacres. It's horrible.
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Hey, this is sound advice.

I've a very early days version of a travel bucket list app, that I've geographically limited to one city - my own, as the place that you can fly out from. I know that I want user's who are more travel-orientated than typical as early adopters.

I've been building up a social profile on facebook, with high quality articles/links, and interacting with travel focused people on twitter. I've added links back to the application from the facebook article. And, it feels like I'm doing this right. But, it's not yet gaining much traction, whilst actually soaking up a lot of time, and I feel like I'm not in a coding-mindset if I do too much of this that day.

I've got a small bunch of users, who are seeded from friends and friends of friends. Even a couple of randoms. Today I'm sending out a site update email, and showing them what they can do to help, as well as showing them the plan for 2014, and some interesting travel information.

I hope it makes a difference, as I agree that you need a 100 or so users initially. I've been talking to an airport about physical advertising, and I think it's too early for that at the moment, but I'm working on getting it at a reduced rate.

Ultimately, it maybe that I've tried to engage with people too early in the development process, and I need to get on with development. Tricky, though as once you start engaging it feels that you really should keep those channels going.

Anyway. Basically, I'm agreeing. And this is a progress update as to what I've been doing so far. I think there's many other things I could do; actually getting permission to survey those in the arrival area of my local airport being one. There's plenty more, but my time is limited, and in a city where the startup scene is fairly new, it's pretty hard to find co-founders, though that would be a MASSIVE help.

Cheers for the post & I hope my thoughts/progress are useful to others. Thanks for reading.
Putting in time is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for progress. In a modern tech business, there is an endless supply of things that could be improved, and available human resource is the limiting factor.

I find that having a roughly fixed number of hours of work is useful in the long run to balance burnout from working too many hours against not working to your full potential.

My productivity per hour goes down as I work more hours, but unless I am really tired each additional unit of time still provides a (diminishing) positive return.

Thinking that you have been really productive and can slack off for the rest of the day is a dangerous trap to fall into if you want to work at your full potential - it is better to use the positive mood you get from making progress and use it to motivate you to make even more progress.
Monads are a mostly a non-issue, once you understand them.

The accidential memory leaks still exist.
Kurosawa has a wide range of styles - which is why I like to compare him to Kubrick, although Kurosawa usually stays within Edo period contexts while Kubrick also had a wide range of themes. My favorites so far are Seven Samurais, Yojimbo and Dreams. Don't be afraid of watching one of his films from the 50ies - because of their relatively quick pace, clear themes and modern looking cuts I find them highly enjoyable, not just as an educational experience, but with a genuinely high entertainment value even today. From an educational standpoint it's amazing to see the strong influences he had on Star Wars for example.
You guys did not invent map-reduce!!
I too would use this.
CertiVox have released a blog on their site explaining more about PrivateSky shut down: http://www.certivox.com/blog/bid/359788/The-real-story-on-th...
There is a lot more to secure protocol design than just stringing together commonly accepted standards, unfortunately.

There are a great many ways you can all gaps which mean a hacker can circumvent your security arrangements, and we are sceptical because we've seen it done wrong so many times before that it is healthier to take the pessimistic view (assume it is wrong and be pleasantly surprised if it isn't, rather than unpleasantly surprised if/when it turns out not to be).
Textsecure != Telegram.
Textsecure is a replacement for SMS/text messages and Telegram for Whatsapp type messages. Totally different things.
Sorry, I guess I read too much into "donation towards its business" in the first line of the article.
Check All "hayao miyazaki" films. He defined the animated films.
Bronies do buy toys - in fact, they complain that shop keepers don't take them seriously and/or assume it's for a younger female sibling.
As other people have commented, augmentation is a very good idea, and automation is part of that. The title of this submission indicates something entirely different to that however.

As an aside, the really interesting part of image analysis is not that we can automatically detect tumor cells, but that machine learning can extract features from pathology specimens that a human could never see:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23100629
How many little boys do you think are asking their parents for hunger games toys this Christmas?
It is only called 'class warfare' when the working class fights back.
That's actually pretty neat idea.
Why do you think that is stupid?
I suppose that depends whether one is driven to be productive at 'work', or productive ex-work.

If I've achieved my work goals for a day / other accounting period, there is no further reward for me pushing-on to achieve more. I'd rather use that remaining energy for my own personal goals.

So I don't see it as a trap, quite the opposite; use that positive mood to go and fix the leaky faucet, or whatever.
Do you really believe that? Map and reduce were available in FP languages in the 1970s! Yes Google have a nice implementation of doing it in a distributed compute cluster, but there was no new discovery there.
Very simple: the striking workers were considered criminals - rabble that no upstanding citizen would want to get associated with. Today, they'd be called terrorists.

Now think about how today, the American military gets away with bombing weddings...
They don't seem to animate in Chrome 31.
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I think you make a very principled distinction between 'de-jure' compulsion, and 'de-facto' compulsion, but in practice, things aren't always so clear cut.

If I were to offer a single mother a large lump sum for one of her kidneys so she could feed her children, without any kind of threat, implied or otherwise, that would still be at the very least ethically problematic, don't you think?
Actually at first glance I wasn't sure if it is a parody.
> isn't it just some form of polling at the end of the day?

Probably long-poll, a single connection from client to server kept alive with the occasional byte sent one way which sends the message and disconnects when there is something to send (the disconnect, requiring a new request from the client is because some clients won't process what has been sent immediately unless the connection is closed).

I once wrote a messaging client that operated this way. It is efficient in terms of bandwidth use and client footprint, though if you are using a process based we server it can be quite inefficient there (an event driven service on few processes/threads is far more efficient for handling many long-lived low-activity connections).
I am not sure what is so surprising about this. Assuming that the execs understanding of female and male consumers is correct if there is a bias in their behavior, they should use that fact to increase their profits. We should stop forcing this gender equality down everyones throats.
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+1 on the nope, I have Virgin Media. No installation fee & the line was run to the house years ago, we don't even have a BT phone line.
If you don't have a causal model yet, random peterbation can get you moving in the right direction (genetic algorithms). Hopefully through observations of enough effects you will start to see enough patterns to construct a causal model.
I agree, it's really nice but it isn't even working in ie9. A .gif would fit the bill in the cross browser department
My understanding from what dentists have said to me in the past is that ordinary toothpaste in the abstract is of limited value, especially if you brush often, but it's a useful vehicle for fluoride.
Articles like these make me wish that HN had a black-list of sites that only publish partisan politicized crap journalism (regardless of actual brand of ideology preached).

If they make a conscious decision to push one-way propaganda, they should not be linked to in polite company.
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It's one of the greatest legacies of the US unions. E.g. May Day as the international day for workers demonstrations came about largely in recognition of the sacrifices of the Haymarket Massacre, and thanks to the AFL reiterating it's commitment to the 8 hour day by planning new demonstrations for May 1st 1890.
While Korra is still ok, it's nowhere near as good as the Last Air Bender for reasons that have nothing to do with the gender of the protagonist.
If you were paid per hour, at some point the marginal increase in productive work got for the hour would be swamped by the fixed costs of just hiring another person and getting some 'fresh' hours out of them.
PayPal definitely asks for a full address when you sign up or pay by card directly. And I don't know about Kickstarter, but I just checked Indiegogo which I regularly use, and they require a full address for billing.

My understanding of the system is that usually the address can be wrong so long as your card/connection/purchase/etc doesn't look suspicious, but different payment processors have different fraud profiles, so some might pay more attention to the address than others.
They do for me in Chrome 31 on Windows 7.

Ugly aliasing in Firefox though.
I'm gonna be That Guy and say that the e-mail regex isn't upto scratch and probably should not be included.

generally, very good.
I don't know whether what you're saying is true but is it backed by evidence or just an assumption?
Another well-known example of violence against striking workers in the US is the Ludlow massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
Yeah, shame that for most people the time they need for eating, household chores and commute cut only into the recreation/rest hours, and often do so enough that there's very little recreation left.
Where on earth did the author find this revisionist nonsense?

The 40-hour work week was won after a bitter decades-long fight by workers and unions against business owners.

The idea that Ford bestowed it upon a grateful staff to improve capitalism is wrong, pointless and insulting.

Here's an article in favour of shorter workdays that takes history a little more seriously:
http://www.iww.org/history/library/misc/Bekken2000
Agreed, also the naming "Developer license" implies multiple usage .. at least to me.
For me, end of any ideas that the moon landings were faked, is faking it such that the monitoring Soviets would have been fooled, or that the Soviets knew it was faked and kept quiet. The USSR would have absolutely monitored everything they could have associated with the USA's adventures in space, and if they detected the slightest hint of US fakery, they would have used that to thoroughly discredit their great enemy. Even if not for some odd political reason, by now, the information would have leaked. But I cant see any way it would have served Soviet interests to allow the USA to get away with faking it.

Not saying other evidence doesn't prove that the US landed on the moon, just saying that for me, what ever theory any one wants to put forward to suggest it was faked, this one point is a 10ft thick lead wall in their way, and as yet I have not see a solid reason for the Soviets to play ball with a grand US fraud.
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Feels a bit too flashy for me. That's just personal opinion though, it's still great work. Now work on cross browser support.
It's like comparing invention of a new hemorrhoids drug to the discovery of DNA.

One has niche uses and the other creates new industries and revolutionizes science. It's hardly the same.
I think programming trivia are not too bad of an idea, it's how you use them. If you base everything on them and bombard the candidate with test it might be not good because a lot of people are not that good under that kind of pressure and the results might not reflect the actual skills of the person. Some programming questions are still important to make sure that the candidate is not lying.

I think it's important to see if the candidate is a person you would like to work to, there are many things to consider, try to find someone that fits as a person and skills.
That is an optional parameter. You also have an easy way to fill a form: http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/modules/casper.html#fill
> Because we have different energy levels at different times,

> it would be counterproductive for my co-founders to work at

> 9AM (just like it would be inefficient for me to be

> working at 2AM).

Here in The Netherlands, this is a tough sell. It's hard to come by a company that REALLY implements this policy. I've heard the "Just put in your 8 hours" and it often will have the side-clause "But we would like you to put them in as we do".

Even at my previous company, where we were not customer-bound, and most of our contacts were in the U.S. It made sense I'd come in later, and work later.

But they didn't see it that way, and got in a lot of fights with management about it. They didn't "see" all the hours I often put in late nights at home, only the next day I might got in the office with a full day without conversions ..

There were a few people who would make jokes or "annoyed complaints" to management about me coming in a few hours later than them.
Being a misfit is often met with ill repute.

Man, being at work at 11:00 AM instead of 9 made all the difference for me:

- I got my social time in, which was most of the time late nights at the bar, or at the Dojo.

- I didn't get upset when I had to talk to contacts in the U.S. when they'd come online around 17:00-18:00 or discussing technical implementations even later.

- Our peak hours were U.S. targeted even, so I was having NewRelic sessions every some other night around 23:00-02:00.

Obviously, every next day when there were server/app outages, I would tell about my 3 hour fit to optimize query x by a factor 100. But in the end these moments seemed to be lost to management quite easily.
They will remember the times you will come in late though..

I was putting in 50 hours in a 40 hour week.

For these reasons I now freelance :) I enjoy working in start-ups and with people in general. I think a lot of talent is left on the table by companies because they can't adapt to how developers are generally wired a bit different than other people ..

Some people need strict guidelines to be able to trust they put in the 8 hours.
For me that comes naturally with having fun and sense of responsibility and being trusted.
That is ridiculous. The production values in Korra have been much better than in Last Air Bender, including the animation and the music (especially the music!). The story has been very fast paced with absolutely no filler episodes, with a lot of character development to boot. Going back and watching Last Air Bender, you can tell how much they've learned!
"We filter too much, and with that, we lose real human connection."

The one (most outstanding) treat that turned me off from the very first moment I saw that site is that the most "facebook people" tend to filter too little!
I certainly do agree that this somewhat more abstract approach is much better for stable web applications. My point is that PHP doesn't require you to understand anything to get started, which explains its widespread usage. That is of course not true if you want security or maintainability, but that is exactly the snake oil sold by PHP.

But this web framework is much newer than PHP, isn't it? And this does not look better or easier than PHP: https://wiki.python.org/moin/CgiScripts
They say "You can't con an honest man," is it true?
There are... Just so many open source web applications that aren't written in PHP. So, so many.
Britain is an extremely competitive telecoms marketplace.

BT is broken up into several independent companies. The business of physically laying last-mile copper and fibre and connecting customers is done by Openreach, who are required by OFCOM (the telecoms regulator) to provide fair and non-discriminatory access to their services to any communications company.

The same applies to BT Wholesale, who maintain the network and provide access to that network to communications companies. BT Retail are the company who send you glossy leaflets, but they have to compete under exactly the same terms as any other company - they pay the same prices to Openreach and BT Wholesale as Plusnet, Sky, TalkTalk or anyone else.

In addition, there's a completely independent fibre network operated by Virgin Media that covers the majority of households, and national coverage for HSPA from five different mobile operators. Brits love to complain about broadband, but I think we've got it pretty good.
To whom it may concern: Pavel Durov, one of the authors of Telegram, announced he will pay $200K (or 200 BTC) to decrypt his traffic http://tjournal.ru/paper/durov-decifer-telegram
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Right so is any action being taken against him? This has seemed fairly clear cut from the time of the first Guardian/Greenwald/Snowden release.
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I was like...why would they even produce such a thing...oh...wait.
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Made as a Barbie toy no less....
I'm helping veterinary scientists with their gait analysis, basically by porting the calculations used for pressure measurements (so no 3D forces) on humans and solving problems like detecting the paws along the way.

An example of what this gets used for are things like lameness detection or diagnosing disorders. Or it could be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment.

While the pressure plate doesn't measure 3D forces, it does have the advantage of giving you information about the distribution, which I expect at least has strong correlations with 3D forces. Obviously you need animals of a certain size to get good data (or systems with very small sensors), so you wouldn't use it for gecko's or even really small dogs.

Perhaps I should try calculating the distance to the body's center of mass, to get an idea how well this distinguishes the different paws. The problem I'm having so far is that the quality of the measurements isn't always optimal and inferring which paws are making contact is difficult if you don't see paws from both sides (for quadrupeds at least).

I'll be sure to check out the research you pointed to!
So in demand surplus, the farmer is exploiting consumers.

Does that mean that in supply surplus, the consumer is exploiting the farmer?

Phrasing world in the terms of zero sum game is really not the best idea.
Could it also be explained by saltation[1]? If avalanches can behave like a fluid due to a saltation layer, and saltation can happen to sand particles in wind, then couldn't the streaks be caused by sand/wind instead of water?

Any geologists reading that could offer an opinion? Would this part of the article support this hypothesis:

> Some of the streaks seem to begin at the tops of ridges, too close to the surface to easily be explained by subsurface aquifers

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltation_(geology)
Private trackers will say no. Public trackers may welcome this...
And then there is also Kore: https://kore.io
Unfortunately we're not set up to hire remotely. Hiring remotely has to be strongly baked into the culture and we aren't quite ready to do that yet.

We do, however, help with relocation (and even take care of the logistics for people from oversees).
> The biggest benefit is the ability to access more than 4GB of memory. For reference, the iPhone 5S has 1GB of memory.

No. The biggest benefit as having an addressable virtual address space which is in the tera/peta/exa byte range. Which makes a lot of things simple and efficient, even if you don't have a lot of physical memory. Read about e.g. LMDB's design or Varnish's design for good examples.

The other significant benefit is more registers.